a'hoy mates! PROBLEM: empty session files building up in /tmp, about 700+ for a BBS type site of less than 100 users that gets about 19000 hits a day.
SYSTEM: PHP Version 4.0.4pl1 Platform: SunOS atari 5.6 Generic_105181-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 BACKGROUND: we were having a problem using sessions for login state, we wanted our users to stay logged in indefinitely. we couldn't get the php configuration to keep sessions from expiring, so we turned off garbage collection. that solved out session expiration problem, but introduced the new problem (see above). we use session variables for non-logged in users and logged in users for variables in situations where state only has to persist from one request to the next request by the same browser. for instance, when you submit a form, the php that processes that submission redirects to the original form or to a different page. it sets a success or error message in the session that is unset by the page that is redirected to. this is an important user experience feature. i found a discussion board post suggesting that empty session files happen when session variables are registered without session_start(). i am fairly certain we always session_start() before session_register(). any solutions to eliminate the empty session files in /tmp? here is info on our session configuration: Directive Local Value Master Value session.auto_start Off Off session.cache_expire 180 180 session.cache_limiter nocache nocache session.cookie_domain no value no value session.cookie_lifetime 0 0 session.cookie_path / / session.cookie_secure Off Off session.entropy_file no value no value session.entropy_length 0 0 session.gc_maxlifetime -1 -1 session.gc_probability 0 0 session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID session.referer_check no value no value session.save_handler files files session.save_path /www/sessions /www/sessions session.serialize_handler php php session.use_cookies On On -- austin swinney ___ ___ _ information specialist II /_ / /_> SCZ, CA Education.Training.Research /__ / / | r r r r r [EMAIL PROTECTED] pirates of programming -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
