How do check if a PHP session is empty?

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Is this bad practice?

if ($_SESSION['something'] == '')
{
    echo 'the session is empty';
}

Is there a way to check if its empty or it is not set? I'm actualy doing this:

if (($_SESSION['something'] == '') || (!isset($_SESSION['something'])) {
    echo 'the session is either empty or doesn\'t exist';
}

Does !isset just checks if a $_SESSION[''] exist and doesn't check if, is there are values in the array or not

session php
7 Answers

I know this is old, but I ran into an issue where I was running a function after checking if there was a session. It would throw an error everytime I tried loading the page after logging out, still worked just logged an error page. Make sure you use exit(); if you are running into the same problem.

     function sessionexists(){
        if(!empty($_SESSION)){
     return true;
         }else{
     return false;
         }
      }


        if (!sessionexists()){
           redirect("https://www.yoursite.com/");
           exit();
           }else{call_user_func('check_the_page');
         }
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