session

Anon

Please help. I am trying to use sessions instead of cookies for my simple site. But for some reason I am creating the sessions but it is not saving the data to it ie

This is the included file in the page
<?
session_register( \\"session\\" );
session_start();
function cleanMemberSession ($clan_id, $clan_name, $clan_abb, $pass )
{
global $session;
$session[id] = $id;
$session[clan_name] = $clan_name;
$session[clan_abb] = $clan_abb;
$session[pass] = $pass;
$session[logged_in] = true;
}
function checkUser()
{
global $session, $logged_in;
$session[logged_in] = false;
$member = getRow( \\"clans\\", \\"id\\", $session[id] );
if ( ! $member ||
$member[clan_name] != $session[clan_name] ||
$member[pass] != $session[pass] )
{
header( \\"Location: ../login.php\\" );
exit;
}
$session[logged_in] = true;
return $member;
}
?>

And here is the page what excutes it

cleanMemberSession( $id, $form[clan_name], $form[clan_abb], $form[password] );
header( \\"Location: ../login.php?\\".SID );

I get no erros but I have put this simple page to test if the sessions has saved the info I wanted

here is simple login page

<?php
include(\\"real.inc\\");
include(\\"dblib.inc\\");
?>

<head><title>Login</title></head>
<p>Welcome to login page </p>
<?php
print \\"Clan name is $clan_name\\n\\";
print \\"password is $id\\n\\";
?></body>

It should print the password and name if im correct but it is not.

Please help if ya can

Anon

I haven't worked with sessions yet, but I beleive that you have to call session_start() at the beginning of every page that you want to have access to the sessions variables.

Anon

If you look at the include file it is there session.start at the begining of all pages to use sessions

?? Any other help ?

Anon

From www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

If track_vars is enabled and register_globals is disabled, only members of the global associative array $HTTP_SESSION_VARS can be registered as session variables. The restored session variables will only be available in the array $HTTP_SESSION_VARS. Example 1. Registering a variable with track_vars enabled

<?php
session_register("count");
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS["count"]++;
?>

If register_globals is enabled, then all global variables can be registered as session variables and the session variables will be restored to corresponding global variables. Example 2. Registering a variable with register_globals enabled

<?php
session_register("count");
$count++;
?>

So possibly you don't have register_globals enabled in your php.ini file.

Also I'd suggest that you go to the page I've listed above and checkout the comments people have already posted. The PHP annotated manual has got to be the best referance out there for solving php problems.

Anon

I am using php 4.04 and these are my

; Note - track_vars is ALWAYS enabled as of PHP 4.0.3
register_globals = On

This is what I get on the login page. I have disabled cookies to test script. As you can see I do get a session but it has no variables appended to them. ??

http://real/login.php?PHPSESSID=f0d9379af93f81a74e47a2ae6875e826

HELP !!!!!!

Anon

Myabe the problem lies with the registering of your variable. I've noticed some problems with PHP when I'm passing around an array that I haven't created yet. Try putting $session=array() before your session_register call.

Also are all of the \ nessicary in your session_register line? I wouldn't think that you need to escape anything when passing it the name of a variable to gather.

Anon

All of the \ is because I copied pasted the info onto this page. The paste has added some \ he. But I have tried $session=array() and that has made no difference. ?? I am really confused now and stuck. I cant go any further until I have this sorted.

Any other ideas if ya can. Thanks for the help up to now.

Lee

lawnmowerman

Variables are not stored on the client side with sessions. They are stored in a session file on the server. The session ID (which is what is in your URL there), tells PHP which session is assigned to your browser.

You technically don't need session_start() at the beginning of each and every page....but it doesn't hurt. It will start a session if one doesn't exist, and if one exists, it just skips the creation.

In order to store variables in the session, after session_start(), declare the variables you wish to store in the session file:

<?php
session_start();

$name = "Rich";
session_register( "name" );

This code will register the variable $name with the session. Note that you specify the variable by it's name, not the variable itself. Using session_register( $name ) is incorrect, as is session_register( "$name" ).

Hope this helps!

-Rich

Anon

OK , this is functional , but this not

$kdo = OCIResult($stmt,1);
$cjmeno = $kdo;
session_register( "cjmeno" );

, why ?

I get in session file only this :

!cjmeno

and nothing else , variable $kdo is not empty .

Thanks for help

David

spacemax

What I had to learn in 4h of work was, sessions use diskspace! don't forget to ensure that on /tmp is space for all your vars.

Anon

I have read throughout the discussion and nobody's talked about your browser settings. PHP4 stores sessions in a cookie file in you pc, so if you don't have the settings to accept session cookies, the session variables will be page scoped. In IE the default privacy settings accept session cookies. Not sure about netscape.

I don't know if this is what's going on, but it sounds reasonable to check this before going nuts over if it is a coding problem.

good luck.

Alf.