session question...

[Anon]

Hello everyone--
I'm running PHP4 and using it's session functions and here's the problem I'm running into. On my logon page I use the session_start() function to create a new session and then i use the session_register() function to hold all my user information. The problem I am having is that when I go from page1.php to page2.php it is creating a new session id for me. For example:

page1.php:
session_start(); //gives user an SID
//register variables etc... and submit via form
//which goes to page2.php

page2.php:
session_start();
//register variables etc... and encode/decode to
//retrive all the session variables I need.

The problem is that say on page1.php i get an SID of xxxxxxxxxxxx... and then when it goes to page2.php it sets the SID to yyyyyyyyyyy... for some reason. My session maxlife is set to 1440 so I don't have a clue as to why my session id is getting changed at every page i go to. Any suggestion?

Thanks,
Jay Paulson

[Anon]

Here's what you need to check:
1) If you want the sessions ID to be tracked without doing any extra programming via saving the ID via page.php?sesID=#, and would rather it be automatically checked, make sure register_globals is on.

2) Or if you're gonna track it via the stuff tacked on to the url, you need to have track_vars on.

You can check to see if you have all of them creating a page like this:
<?
phpinfo();
<?

It's under the PHP core section. For more details on all'a this, try: http://www.zend.com/manual/ref.session.php

[Anon]

Hi!
I'm having the same problem with sessions.
In windows (PHP4.0.4) everything works fine. But i under linux (PHP4.0.3pl1) the session id-s are regenerating every page.
Both track vars and register globals are enabled.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Balazs Denes

[paulsjv]

Man it's been so long since I asked that question that I really don't remember what I did to solve the problem, but I'll try to rehash some things for you. In my site on every page I have an include file that holds all my session variables so it looks like this:

session_start();

#getting the session id
$SID = session_id();

session_register("SID");
#other session vars below

As you can see I go and grab the SID every page I go to and register it into the session. It seems to work fine that way. Try that and if it doesn't work let me know and maybe I can remember what I did to get it to work correctly.

Jay Paulson
[e-mail]
http://www.dvdfuture.com

[Anon]

It doesn't work for me.
On top of every page I do a
session_start();
and even if I try to write it out after it it differs every time I load another page.
(On reloads the session work ok)
The pages stay in the same dir.
Tried both cookies and URL propagation with the same effect.
cookie.domain=
cookie.path=/
Thanks,
Balazs Denes