sessions

[dharvey]

has anyone ever had problems using session on xp, i am running xp home and have apache 1.3.20 and php 4.0.6

when i try to initialise a session

session_start();
session_register("usr");
$usr = "dharvey";

it works online in a linux server but not locally

i recieve a warning open ("tmp/ and a load of garble

i am guessing i need to edit session.save_path = C:\phpdev\php\temp; in the php.ini but i only started this 2 days ago and i cant find any documentation on it.

any help would be greatly appreciated

[dharvey]

just to expand the exact error is

Warning: open(/tmp\sess_1e2712f0d9962407402b6bdfe37ed5e3, O_RDWR) failed: m (2) in c:\phpdev\www\ill-behaviour\v1\index.php on line 1

[yelvington]

By default, session records are stored in temporary files, in a location that is specified in php.ini. From the error message, it appears that your installation has that value unset, so the Unix default of /tmp is being used. That folder doesn't exist.

Find the php.ini file for your Windows setup. Edit that file. Look for a line that says

session.save_path = /tmp;

Change it to a valid path on your machine, and make sure the Web server has permission to create files there. (I have no idea how XP permissions work, or even if it has such a thing.)

[dharvey]

the path to seesion path as above is edit session.save_path = C:\phpdev\php\temp; , and the folder exists,

aside from the error messages showing up the session actually works, i can read the variable from other pages ect, so i think im gonna have to check up on permissions if that seems to be the problem

one other stupid question, how do i construct an if statement that check wether the page was accessed through a form, right now i have it checking a form field "isset" but i would rather have it checking on the form name, than form fields, ive been reading but cant find it anywhere

appreciate the help again

Dale

[jayant]

Originally posted by dharvey
the path to seesion path as above is edit session.save_path = C:\phpdev\php\temp; , and the folder exists,

aside from the error messages showing up the session actually works, i can read the variable from other pages ect, so i think im gonna have to check up on permissions if that seems to be the problem

strange. create "tmp" directory in your document root, you won't get this problem. BTW, are you sure there arent multiple php.ini's in the path, like one in windows directory and other in php directory itself. In that case that will get loaded which is found first, so its best to have just one php.ini with correct settings 🙂

[dharvey]

nope, i used one of the phpdev installs but i searched around and there isnt any other php.ini part from the one in winnt

on creating that folder i still get an error 🙁 so for now im gonna just test my stuff online, im moving to a uni soon so ill have access to a linux machine there,

thanks anyway

Dale

[intenz]

I think you have to add slashes around the path.

session.save_path = "C:/Windows/Temp";