Check if PHP session has already started

Question

I have a PHP file that is sometimes called from a page that has started a session and sometimes from a page that doesn\'t have session started. Therefore when I have s

Answer 1

Not sure about efficiency of such solution, but this is from working project This is also used if you need to define the default language

   /**
    * Start session
    * Fall back to ukrainian language
    */
   function valid_session() {
    if(session_id()=='') {
        session_start();
        $_SESSION['lang']='uk';
        $_SESSION['lang_id']=3;
    }
    return true;
  }