session start()

Anon

I have some code that utilises sessions, and the start session() function will not work at all and the message:

Warning: open(/tmp\sess_3f049452d8386b1d2c3caa05e5b81588, O_RDWR) failed: m (2) in c:/program files/..

just comes up. What could be the problem. Is PHP installed wrongly? I have windows 2000 and php4 used with apache server. I am using the php module for the server to work with php as the cgi method didn't work...

Anon

there is no /tmp directory on windows. I use this for sessions when developing on windows. It has the benefit that if you forget to remove it when you upload it online, it still works.

if ($PHP_OS == 'WIN32') {
session_save_path("c:/windows/temp");
}

session_start();

You may want to check and make sure I have that environment variable correct. ($PHP_OS). I am working from memory here. Youi also need to make sure there is a c:windows/temp directory as well. Should be, but I am not on windows 2000, so I don't know if it is still there in that version. You may want to use echo $PHP_OS; first, to make sure the string returned is "WIN32".

Anon

Thanks for the info Sparhawk, I have managed to get the session_start() to work now following your example. The exact code required for windows 2000 is:

if(PHP_OS=='WINNT'){
session_save_path("c:/WINNT/Temp");
}
session_start();

Thanks...