Session Vars

Anon

Greetings!!

This is sooo weird!!
I'm trying to work with sessions and everything seems to be working well, we get the session ID without any problem and pass it throught every page using the GET method, but the session variable we defined gets lost somehow in a very misterious way; the session vars are suppossed to be global, so we don't need to define it again or to pass it as a parameter in everypage. We use start_session and session_is_registered in everypage to asure we don't lost the session.
How can this var get lost?????
Please help me! is urgent!
Thank you 😉

Anon

Hi ^_

Make sure your SESSION_* variables are set correctly in php.ini ; If you are running under WinNT, Win98, Win95, or WinME you should be using C:\%SYSROOT%\temp\ (If that gives you problems, use c:\\%SYSROOT%\\temp (eg, C:\\Windows\\temp) ... the default INI is not configured correctly for running under Win32 environments.

Also, you should be using session_start() and not start_session :-)

Also, make sure you have register globals... but I really doubt this is your problem =)

~~Ceph~~

dee_dee

Thanks Ceph!
We have already checked the php.ini and the problem is still there, but I think I don't understand what you mean with using `C:\%SYSROOT%\temp... do you mean we should store the php.ini in that route?, we have c:/winnt/php.ini just as the set up says, the other route we have changed is the session.save_path using the route we have the site stored and creating a folder with the session information that is generated in every session.
We have windows NT and we are using session_start instead start_session 😉

We don't know what else to do with this error!, thanks again for your help.

Dee Dee 🙂

Ceph wrote:

Hi ^_

Also, you should be using session_start() and not start_session :-)

Also, make sure you have register globals... but I really doubt this is your problem =)

~~Ceph~~

Anon

Woops, that was an error on my part. Should have been your OS directory, not %SYSROOT% (wrong thing... oops!) hehe.

Hmmm. It looks like it should work, in theory, what you have.

Although, are you actually using the OS's temp directory? If not, try that. c:/winnt/temp/ or try c:\winnt\temp (with the double-\ marks!).

Also, have you tried using the cookie form of sessions? If not, try that.. if that works then you know something is goofed, if it doesn't, then sessions aren't working... btw what version of PHP?

Ceph
www.ellindar.com

dee_dee

I tried with the temp directory, it produces a very strange error with apache... I'll try to see what's up with this error..

Cookies aren't a very good solution because the user can disable them and we need the var for authentication.

Thanks again fot your help!
Dee Dee 😉

kikidonc

If you use start_session()- as you wrote it in your mail - here is maybe the cause of your troubles...

The right fonction is session_start(): you inverted the words...

Hope there's simply that ;-)

Fred.

dee_dee

Thanks Fred!
I misstyped the function when writing the message, I'm using session_start(), this problem it way out now!...

kikidonc

Happy it helped you :-)

You know, I just started php a couple of days ago and this kind of mistakes were very frequent in my code, that's why I though about that...

See you ;-)

dee_dee

Hi Fread, thanks for your concern, but that wasn't the error, I'm using the directive right, I have all the time, I'm supposing the error might be in the set up of PHP.ini because everything else, including the sintax, is fine...I think I'll start passing the var trough the query string...(a patch while I find what weird thing is happening!)
Bye!
Dee Dee

kikidonc

In that case I can't do anything more for you (it becomes too much technical for me :-)... ).

Hope somebody will have better answers for you,

Kind Rgrds,
Fred.