Defining a recordset, sessions and session_start()

Question

It took me a long time to work out why a recordset defined using a session variable did not function.
I finally decided that the session_start() command was not being inserted by the recordset creation procedure.
Working out just where to put it in the code was not as simple as I thought.
Initially I placed it after the include files, but that would not work.
I eventually put it in the recordset creation code as follows:
$colname_eventset = "-1";
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['event_sess'])) {
  $colname_eventset = $_SESSION['event_sess'];
mysql_select_db($database_dummyread, $dummyread);
$query_eventset = sprintf("SELECT * FROM events WHERE event_index = %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_eventset, "int"));
$eventset = mysql_query($query_eventset, $dummyread) or die(mysql_error());
$row_eventset = mysql_fetch_assoc($eventset);
$totalRows_eventset = mysql_num_rows($eventset);
This works fine, and as there is no output to the browser at this point, there is no error message "headers already sent". There may bve better locations
I would have thought that any recordset defined using a session variable would have included the session_start() command in the code that it generated but apparently it does not.
For the record, most of the help topics on session variables in Dreamweaver help refer to a no longer supported version (Ultradev) but at least one file is current: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/165/tn_16563.html
There may be others.

Answer 1

Hi,
If you are looking for something like global method it is not possible. But you can create a function module in SE37 and you can use the same wherever you want.
Regards
Githen