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

PHP_VERSION_ID is available as of PHP 5.2.7, so check this first and if necessary , create it. session_status is available as of PHP 5.4 , so we have to check this too:

if (!defined('PHP_VERSION_ID')) {
    $version = explode('.', PHP_VERSION);
    define('PHP_VERSION_ID', ($version[0] * 10000 + $version[1] * 100 + $version[2]));
}else{
    $version = PHP_VERSION_ID;
}
if($version < 50400){
    if(session_id() == '') {
        session_start();
    }
}else{
    if (session_status() !== PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE) {
        session_start();
    }
}