Is it possible to have two scripts that both run on say a cron jobs, and pass a SESSION variable from Script1.php to Script2.php? I understand the most common usage of SESSION variables is to create the typical unique ID cookie for users accessing a site via the browser and carrying information about that user from page to page. What would happen if I set a SESSION variable in a script that was executed server side and then run another to attempt and pick up the particular variable? Would the server generate a unique ID for itself that would expire after the likely default of 1440 seconds?
My thoughts are that, I build a lot of PHP scripts for things like consuming APIs where there is multiple files that often need to run in some sort of sequence. Instead of passing information from one script to next via MySQL database updates and selects, I'd like to use the more lightweight and seemingly more convenient SESSION variable method.