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All the tutorials say to put session start. They don't say if that should be in all pages on the website, or some, or only 1.
And if it's only 1 page, does it have to be the main page? Or a page with a form that I am making that puts the session ID in the database? If the visitor never visits a page with a session id but they are on the site, do they still have a session id?
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It must be on every page you intend to use. The variables contained in the session—such as username and favorite color—are set with $_SESSION, a global variable. In this example, the session_start function is positioned after a non-printing comment but before any HTML.
You want to put session_start(); at the top of your page before any other code. However, if you are using includes to make your life easier, it's best to put it at the very top of a file that is included in all files.
Before you can store any information in session variables, you must first start up the session. To begin a new session, simply call the PHP session_start() function. It will create a new session and generate a unique session ID for the user. The PHP code in the example below simply starts a new session.
Description ¶ session_start() creates a session or resumes the current one based on a session identifier passed via a GET or POST request, or passed via a cookie. When session_start() is called or when a session auto starts, PHP will call the open and read session save handlers.
You need to put this in each page that need to access the session data before accessing (or creating) any session data.
See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php
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