Exercises

1. If cookies are disabled on a visitor's machine, should you try using sessions?

2. Sessions are terminated when your visitor navigates away from your site: true or false?

3. Because sessions are stored on your server, they are more secure: true or false?

4. You always need to call serialize() before storing an array in a session: true or false?

5. Which php.ini directive allows you to specify how long a session should be considered active?

   • a) lifetime

   • b) maxlifetime

   • c) gc_maxlifetime

   • d) session.lifetime

   • e) session.maxlifetime

   • f) session.gc_maxlifetime

   • g) None of the above

6. If you are using a custom session data handler, what should the session read function return if no data exists for the current session?

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