session in php4 still buggy...

[Anon]

hi...there is somewhat a prob with session in php4 or maybe i just misunderstood the documentation but for sure try this scripts...

***first php file
//setsession.php
session_register('sec');
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS["sec"] = "dencio";
//echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["sec__"];
header ("Location:getsession.php");

***second php file
//getsession.php
session_register("sec");
echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["sec"] . "-session value<br>";
echo session_id() . " - session id";

on the second file you see no session value but you have a session id but if you uncomment the ECHO line in our first php file you can see the session value...is this a problem in php4 or this is how it works?...this goes same thing on the cookie issue...

thanks..
dencio

[Anon]

You should not have to register the variable on the second page before you can read it.

And did you verify that on both pages the sessionID is the same?

[Anon]

yah i try that just now...uncommenting the session_register line adn on the second page i cannot even see the session_id()...by the way putting the php.ini on winnt directory would have a different effect when you put it in system32 directory for nt server...

[Anon]

by the way...i tested a win2000 with iis with the code and same thing i can only get the session id but not the session variable...again this script runs ok if there is no header(\"location:getsession.php\") code and just type the url manualy in the add bar...

[Anon]

well first of all, why do people so often think that they found a bug in PHP ?? I'm doing it for 3 months now and haven't found any bug, but a lot of errors done by me...

Anyway to your problem... I have done only one page using session so far, but i used on every page I wanted to access the session data, the session_start(); function ... That might be the problem, because I think you use cookies to transfer the session_id (you don't include it in the header...) The session_id then comes out of the cookie, that's the reason why you have it... but thats only speculation, because I used the URL to get the session_id from one page to another ...

hope that helps

cya Rob

[Anon]

I think I've read in this forum that a cookie is not set if you do a redirection just after (maybe only with a specific type of browser, I don't remember). Which explains that your session cookie is not set, unless you type in the URL yourself.

[Anon]

PUTTING A SESSION_START() FUNCTION THE TIME YOU TRY TO RETRIEVE THE DATA WOULD SOMEHOW ELEVATE THE PROBLEM SINCE THE FIRST REDIRECTION YOU STILL GET EMPTY BUT REFRESHING THE WOULD NOW GET THE SESSION VALUE...BUT AGAIN WHY DO I HAVE TO CLICK ON THE REFRESH BUTTON...I THINK THE PROB WAS SETTING A SESSION THEN REDIRECTING IT IMMEDIATELY...COZ IF YOU TRY TO SET A SESSION ON THE PAGE WITHOUT REDIRECTING IT IMMEDIATELY THEN MAYBE CLICKING A LINK TO OUR SECOND PAGE WHICH ECHO THE SESSION VALUE WE JUST SET, THEN YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM WIHT REGARDS TO SESION CANNOT BE RETREIVE...THIS GOES ALSO FOR COOKIE PROBLEM IN SETTING IT AND REDIRECTING IT AGAIN...BY THE WAY I WILL TRY LINUX WITH APACHE ON THIS ISSUE IT THIS IS STILL THE PROB...

THANKS
DENCIO

[Anon]

oliver your right..i that's what i experienc where ur session is not set unless you type the url or click a link...but header("location:getsession.php") you mess up what you think would set your session