Yet Another Session Problem

[Anon]

Ok hopefully pretty simple to solve for one of you. I have a test box on my computer running apache 4.21 (I'm pretty sure) on IIS 5.1. My script works great here. I upload it to my Unix Server on Apache with PHP 4.12 the sessions longer work.

I have session.usecookies turned on

I have session.autostart turned on

I am using $_session['sessionname'] to retrieve and set the sessions.

How do I get it to work on my remote server as well??

[Anon]

Forgot to mention...on the server I can see the session being created...the scripts simply don't seem to be grabbing the sessions once they are set.

THANKS in advance.

[Anon]

Here is an example for setting up and extracting from sessions:

STEP (a) - Setting up:

// Step 1: Setting a name for our session.
session_name("user_details");

// Step 2: Starting Session.
session_start();

// Step 3: Register Session Variables
session_register(name);
session_register(street_address);
session_register(city);
session_register(state);
session_register(zip);

STEP (b) - Populating with date:

Just create a form with these session settings -- i.e.

<input type="text" name="name" size="30" maxlength="50">

-- and have the page submit to itself or to another page with these same session settings (as detailed above in step (a)).

STEP (c) - Extracting data:

again have the session settings from step (a) on the page, and simply enter

<? echo "$name" ?>

And you will have passed the variables using sessions.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Charlie

[Anon]

Thanks Charlie...Another question... I am converting from always coding in ASP. Setting a session variable was as simple as

session("username") = "John Doe"

With the new PHP (4.1 ++) I thought with session.autostart enabled, track vars automatically enabled that you could do something similar like:

$_session['username'] = "Johndoe"

Is this information incorrect? (I also thought session_register('') was depreciated.)

AND

echo $_session['username']

to retrieve the session. Is this incorrect?