PHPLIB session management

Anon

Hey,

I'm hoping someone out there can help...

I'm using PHPLIB session management ans seeing wierd results.

Doing this:
page_open(array("sess" => "Example_Session",
"auth" => "Example_Auth",
"perm" => "Example_Perm",
"user" => "Example_User"));

$perm->check("user");

Is giving me this:
Warning: Object perm not found in ../includes/page_auth.inc on line 7

Fatal error: Member function used on a non-object in ../includes/page_auth.inc on line 7

After page_open asks me to login

Line 7 is the line '$perm->check("user");'

So even though page_open declares an instance of Example_Perm called $perm - it doesn't appear to be available to my script.

I would expect page_open to fall over during the logging-in procedure if there was a problem with $perm.

Any one help???

jagipson

Interestingly enough I get similar results on:

page_open(
array("sess" => "Contact_Session",
"auth" => "Contact_Auth",
"perm" => "Contact_Perm",
"user" => "Contact_User"));

$perm->check("author");
.
.
.

When instantiated, the page gives only:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/html/chent.php on line 7

(that would be the entire source from the resulting page.)

I'm using a form (method post) from another page to access this page. Yes, I used the $sess->url() method to compose the action property of the form element. I'm also passing on some values through the url...

The url for the page above that i'm having problems with is http://localhost/mypage.php?myval=1

I wonder if the problem is a byproduct of instatiating the page with some items passed in on the URL and others via HTTP POST. I call this page in a different context and it works.

Very strange.

jagipson

Okay, I changed 2 things and it worked...

1) I changed the order of the attributes in my form tag, so that method="post" appeared first. This is the least likely to have been the problem.

2) I changed the name of a post variable in the form from parm (yes parm) to prm. This post variable is unrelated to the PHPLIB parm object, but I was using the PHPLIB parm object in the page I was posting to. I thought that the post variable would be defined in the new page as $HTTP_POST_VAR["parm"]. Could this have cause a conflict with $parm, which was the permissions object from PHPLIB? I'm not sure, but renaming the post var to prm fixed my problem. Has anyone else had this problem (where a post variable overwrites a variable on the page your're posting to)? Does anyonw know what causes this?