Are sessions useful ?

neville

The session feature in php is very very sloppy ..... you might have heard this before but I'm saying it again because it is.... and I hope the guys who made it really think hard on this subject so that session management becomes as easy as the other features in php

session_kill should be made that deletes the session file from the /tmp directory among other things

There is no straight forward way of doing things and one has to always use a work around ..... The details are too many to note here and i don't want to waste my time

polson

yes, they are useful.

Anon

I want to get a cookie written in php trough a servlet.It is not grtting value thru servlet but i can get it thru php3.

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Uhm... like... go away dude...

"The details are too many to note here and i don't want to waste my time"

You already did waste your time, and mine, but I know how to uses sessions, so my scripts work fine, which means I have more time to spend here helping out poeple with real problems.
If you have a real complaint about sessions, go tell the boys at www.php.net instead of posting here moaning about it.

neville

"I know how to uses sessions"

Oh... goody

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Yeah good isn't it? I just decided to look in the manual and hey, it contained all the info about sessions!

polson

Btw, since you obviously have issues with Native PHP4 sessions, either spend more time with them OR consider phplib OR write your own :

a : Here are some tutorials :

http://www.php.net/manual/ref.session.php
http://zend.com/zend/tut/session.php
http://devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Sessions
http://zend.com/zend/tut/feedback.php

b : PHPLIB :

http://phplib.netuse.de/

c : j-sessons (example) :

http://www.nirvani.net/software/j-sessions/

All in all, keeping an open mind and being humble will get one farther then complaining as complaining and bitching is useless to everyone and will turn off any hope of anyone wanting to help.

neville

I have tried asking for help in this regard and got no response whatsoever for weeks .... strangely there seem to be more replies when I "BITCHED" about it....
I know how to use sessions and have used it before properly...

any way if you still want to help here is the problem:

I have started a session in a file in one folder however when that page calls another file in another folder then the session variable does not carry.... I am using the session_start() statement in every page in the other folder .....

It works fine with all the files in the same folder that the session was started in, but when it comes to the files in any other folder it does not work...... I am using php4 with Apache on win95

Thanks

neville

CODE below is of the two files in the 2 different folders
The variable $val is registered in "f1_file1.php" and
gets printed in "f1_file2.php"
BUT NOT IN "f2_file1.php"

Tell me what is wrong here ?

I am using php4, Apache, windows95

===================================
FOLDER: /www/session/f1/
FILE: "f1_file1.php"

<?session_start();

$val="Hello val";

session_register("val");
echo "session registered";

FILE: "f1_file2.php"

<?session_start();
echo "displaying session val in SAME FOLDER below<br>";
echo $val;

=====================================
FOLDER: /www/session/f2/
FILE: "f2_file1.php"

<?session_start();
echo "displaying session val in DIFFERENT FOLDER below<br>";
echo $val;

======================================

[deleted]

Are you telling PHP which session to use through the URL or through cookies?

neville

Thru cookies and the cookies are on in the browzer I am testing my program in

[deleted]

Can you verify that the sessionID is set correctly on all three scripts using "echo session_id()"?

neville

Yeah ..... I did that .... the session Id has changed .... why ?

[deleted]

Probably because the script doesn't get the cookie from the browser. browsers can be set to return cookies only if they are requested from the same domain and path they were set with.

Check out the sessions section in the annotated php manual, it explains about cookie paths etc, plus a load of user comments about common problems.

http://www.php.net/manual/ref.session.php

neville

Yes! .... I had changed the conf file to reflect different domains on my machine...
But all the same I changed back to just localhost to see if that was problem, but no, it wasn't ....

Do you think its a better idea to pass sessions thru urls instead of using cookies just so that we get the browsers where cookies have been turned off

Also is there any change I can make in the php.ini file ?.......

I hope this makes sense .......

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Personally I prefer to send the session ID in the url, just in case the cookies fail/ are disabled.

For the cookie domain, just make sure that the domain that you read the cookie from is the same as the one you set the cookie with, just in case the browser only returns cookies to the same domain they came from.

Anon

I am able to read a cookie which is set in servlet through php3 program. but not able to read a cookie which is set in php3 through
servlet.
code for php is <?php $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["abc"];

code for java servlet Cookie c[]=req.getCookies();
if(c!=null)
{
for(int i=0;i<c.length;i++)
{ login=c.getName();
out.println(login);
out.println(c.getValue()+"<BR>");
}
}

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