Dont use sessions, they are a little flaky anyway. Use a mixture of holding
data in database and passing sid/userid/hash around on the URL. You wont regret
it.
>I have written here several times on this subject and in the end those who
>have gratiously helped me have ended up just telling me they have no clue
>why it doesn't work. It HAS to be my server setup but I don't know what it
>could be.
>
>Sessions just don't work on my machine...
>
>The heart of the problem is the session_start() function.
>
>The first time you start a session with this function it creates a new
>session, that's fine.
>
>The problem happens when it's run and no matter if the SSID is in a cookie
>or passed via a form, it will still create a new session, every single time.
>It will not pickup the old session.
>
>Here is the app I setup to demonstrate the problem:
>
>http://fromtheduke.com/session/
>
>The first page initiates the session, the variable is posted to the next
>page, the next page should retrieve the session and display the first two
>variables which were registered in the session, then display the third var.
>
>You'll see the third var showsup, the first two don't. The session ID may
>or may not remain the same. If you manually remove the index2.php file and
>reload the first page, the SSID will have changed.
>
>Source of the files:
>index.php:
><?
>
>session_start();
>
>session_register("var1");
>session_register("var2");
>
>$var1 = "My var 1";
>$var2 = "My var 2";
>
>?><HTML>
><HEAD>
><TITLE>Session Page 1</TITLE>
></HEAD>
>
><BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
>
>PHPSESSID: <? echo $PHPSESSID; ?><BR>
>Var1: <? echo $var1; ?><BR>
>Var2: <? echo $var2; ?><BR>
>
><FORM ACTION="index2.php" METHOD="POST">
>VAR 3: <INPUT TYPE=TEXT VALUE="My Var 3" NAME="myvar3"> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT
>VALUE="go"><BR>
></FORM>
>
></BODY>
></HTML>
>--------------------------
>
>Source of index2.php:
><?
>
>session_start(); // start session
>session_register("var3"); // register var 3 session variable
>
>$var3 = $myvar3;
>?><HTML>
><HEAD>
><TITLE>Session Page 2</TITLE>
></HEAD>
>
><BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
>
>PHPSESSID: <? echo $PHPSESSID; ?><BR>
>Var1: <? echo $var1; ?><BR>
>Var2: <? echo $var2; ?><BR>
>VAR3: <? echo $var3; ?><BR>
>
></BODY>
></HTML>
>--------------------------
>
>I have tried session_name() to force the session ID. I was told though this
>function doesn't set the SSID. It gives the SSID a name or something.
>
>I have been told this is all setup correctly, yet, you can see it doesn't
>work.
>
>The permissions on my /tmp directory look like this:
>
>drwxrwxrwt /tmp
>
>Does this have anything to do with this? I don't know much about the
>permissions part of things.
>
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