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PHP

lihaoquan
lihaoquan
12,045 Points
Posted by lihaoquan
lihaoquan
12,045 Points

PHP Session Management

I've looked into some methods to prevent Cross Site Request Forgery ( CSRF ), and there were two methods that was repeatedly shown under generating a session id. One is simply using session_id(); after session_start(), and the other is using md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true));. Can someone explain me the difference between these two methods? Is one better than the other?