Question about Sessions ...

new to codeigniter. been working/playing for about 3 weeks. in my spare time. to all you experienced users, I ask your indulgence and request that you be gentle with the newbie asking questions.

i have several controllers defined for handling menus on a screen in an app i'm writing to learn this stuff. this is now a very basic general ledger system.

I have clients, transactions, reports, general ledger, options, utilities defined as menus and as a result, each one a controller.

i want to be able to have specific items that are constant (not constants) in the system available to all parts of the system. for example, a client number. and data about that client. in other php apps I've developed, I would store that information in the session variable. so figured I would use the session helper. but it appears that the session stuff is reinitialized each time a new controller is instantiated. is that the case? is there a means to change that if it is the case?

i realize I'm being vague, but i'm still at the point where I'm not sure that what I'm saying is sensible. and i'm still trying to make heads or tails of it all.

any alternative suggestions?

OM...

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