Why session name() and session set cookie params()?

Wouldn't session_start() be enough?

[MatthewHSE]

Just a minor peeve, but I find it a little aggravating to have to call three separate session functions when it seems to me that a single one could work just as well:

session_start('name', 'lifetime', 'path', 'domain', 'secure', 'httponly');

Is there any good reason it couldn't work this way?

[coopster]

You can set the other parameters in your configuration, no need to set them every time.