Session help

Anon

Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem with using sessions in my php application. It seems that the session id or possibly the variables aren't getting passed on to the pages that follow. I can't seem to figure it out. Here is some test code that I made to see if I could figure out the problem:

index.php:
<?php
session_start();
session_register("id");
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS["id"] = "1234rick";

echo "My id is: " . $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["id"];
?>
<br />
<a href="test.php?<?=$PHPSESSID?>"> //I also tried <?=SID?>
click here to go to test page
</a>

test.php:
?php
session_start();
if(session_is_registered(id))
{
echo "My id is: " . $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["id"];
}
else
{
echo $PHPSESSID;
}
?>

I have the code on the web if anyone wants to test it:
http://www.fusiongroup.mb.ca/~rsalsa/test

Any help or suggestions would be great! I know that register globals was not enabled when php was install, if that helps.

Thanks!

amcgrath

ha! I was just on your page,a nd it didn't work, I refreshed and it worked. I guess you got it fixed.

Anon

Your SID variable is not properly formatted. Try using

<?=SID;?>

The semi-colin is not present in your post. This prevents it from being printed to the document properly.

The same goes for
<?=$PHPSESSID?>

try <?=$PHPSESSID ?;>

The other problem is that with the later method, you are simply adding the session ID to the url, but it is not assigned to a variable. PHP doesn't know what to do with it.

you could try
<a href="test.php?PHPSESSID=<?=$PHPSESSID ?;>">

I won't swear that is the proper variable name, but I believe so. Using
<a href="test.php?<?=SID;?>"> will solve it alltogether.

Don't forget the first 3 rules of scripting.
1) Patience
2) Persistance.
3) Patience

Good luck! :o)

amcgrath

Naw, he doesn't really need to put the semi colon, at least not how he has it right now. But, it wouldn't hurt so... either way I guess. (I think he got it working though, so the point is moot.)

Anon

It will not work for me, without the semi-colin. Even though in the manual it shows it is not required. Could be because I use netscape. For some reason, a few minor things work differently with IE and Netscape.

i.e. in IE, you can print a variable to the screen with

<?php
$variable;
?>

in Netscape you must use

<?php
echo $variable;
?>

Never had understood why that is, since it's proccessed at the server it should work the same on any browser, but it doesn't. Could be the semi-colin is another one of those anomilies with Netscape.