[PHP] Problem with sessions

[Charlie Fowler]

Hi all,,

Can some one help me with this little issue ... I am trying out some prewritten scripts curtesy of SAMS PHP and MYSQL Web Development, Ch24 - User Authenication & Personalisation on my server setup

The Configuartion for my development environment is Apache 2.39, Win 2000, PHP 4.2.3

The Ini file has the following session settings (as taken from PHPInfo.php):


session

Session Support enabled


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
1440 1440
session.gc_probability
1 1
session.name
PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
session.referer_check
no value no value
session.save_handler
files files
session.save_path
.c:/php/sessions/tmp .c:/php/sessions/tmp
session.serialize_handler
php php
session.use_cookies
On On
session.use_trans_sid
0 0


The error occurs after the registration page is submitted with the following using the function session_start() on the register page.:

Warning: open(.c:/php/sessions/tmp\sess_fa42372dcdbde0e457309f134d71827f, O_RDWR) failed: Invalid argument (22) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\SAMS\Chapter24\member.php on line 5

I believe the problem is in my PHP setup and not the script. The Invalid arguement is the trigger for the config error to be initaited but I am not sure how to edit the php.ini file. I want to ensure that session are started when the server is started. I am also unsure of the function and terminology of

session.save_handler
files files


with the use of "files". Is this the correct default. Also is this the correct session save path:

session.save_path
.c:/php/sessions/tmp .c:/php/sessions/tmp


What is wrong, please help.

Charlie