From aac606cf7c71652ee9624eef6a216800e2e367df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jesus M. Castagnetto" <jmcastagnetto@php.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:05:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Adding text to explaing bug #17122 on session variable names

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@98100 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 reference/session/reference.xml | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/reference/session/reference.xml b/reference/session/reference.xml
index f4d8e9016e..4ec82a3b7d 100644
--- a/reference/session/reference.xml
+++ b/reference/session/reference.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.15 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.16 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.session">
   <title>Session handling functions</title>
   <titleabbrev>Sessions</titleabbrev>
@@ -120,6 +120,14 @@
       substitute <varname>$HTTP_SESSION_VARS</varname> for
       <varname>$_SESSION</varname>, if you prefer the former.
      </para>
+     <para>
+      The keys in the <varname>$_SESSION</varname> associative
+      array are subject to the
+      same limitations as regular variable names in PHP, i.e. they cannot
+      start with a number and must start with a letter or underscore.
+      For more details see the section on
+      <link linkend='language.variables'>variables</link> in this manual.
+     </para>
     </note>
 
     <para>