session var not getting destroyed

peter_sands

Hi,
I am using sessions to hold a userID, This works great between my scripts, I initilise the session at the start;
session_start();
$user_ID =session_id();
session_register("user_ID");

The session carries through my scripts, then at the end I destroy the session;
session_unset();
session_destroy();

But whne I go back to the first form, it is still holding my session. Stop/starting the browser does start a new session, ( I know this), but..
if the user goes back to the first script (without stop/starting the browser)the previous session is still there.

Is there a way around this ?, I need to be able to destroy th esession whith out stop/starting the browser.

Anon

I dont use session_unset and it works...?

jlhaase

Make sure that you call session_start() on the page before you call session_destroy(). This is a common mistake people make in not realizing that they need to call session_start() first.

Anon

I am using session_start... I tried session_unset, session_unregister but it still shows

Warning: Session object destruction failed in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\matrim\logout.php on line 1

Anon

Could it be some kind of configuration problems? php.ini maybe?
I have the same problem, i'm not getting any errors, but the following code does not destroy the session:
session_start();
session_unset();
session_destroy();

Anon

Further I tried this, which is very weird:

session_start();

echo $sess_userinfo;
//prints "right" value

echo session_unregister("sess_userinfo");
//returns 1 - means the variable should be cleaned (?!)

session_destroy();

but, unfortunately, sess_userinfo is never unregistered or destroyed, it still holds the old value.

/sorry about two postings/

Anon

I don't know if I posted the result: I was working on Windows with PHP4.0.2. After a whole day of tries and coursing I installed PHP4.0.4. It worked like a dream. I then moved on to Linux, PHP 4.0.2 and it worked there too.

P.S.: My problem was that the session didn't get distroied and the files remained in the temp directory. Now, after installing the site (on a Linux) it works great 🙂

Anon

i am having the same problem... i am keeping session data in files, using TRANS-SID but my LOGOFF routine just doenst work. session is still alive, although i remove session id from the url. how is this possible?

here is the logoff part:

session_start();
session_unregister ("sUSERID");
session_destroy();
exit;

any ideas?

Anon

are you running a windows server? it seems to me like this is a windows problem.
i solved it by simply setting the session variable to "" or null.
then i have routines that check if that session variable is set.

session_start();
session_unregister ("sUSERID");
$sUSERID = "";
session_destroy();
exit;