Sessions not working??

[Recoil_UK]

Hi guys

I,ve been reading a few articles on sessions and it seems to be pretty straight forward apart from one small snag, anything I try doesnt work.

Take the following script for instance ...

<?php
// initialize a session
session_start();
// register a session variable
session_register('counter');
// increment and display the value of the counter
$counter++;
echo("You have visited this page $counter times! Don't you have anything else to do, you bum?!");
?>

I saved that as index.php, so its the default page, and what should happen is that when you refresh it, the counter should increment, but nothing.

I have looked in my session data, and the sessions are being created with the correct variable, but when i check my temp internet folder, there isnt a cookie present.

Can someone help me get this working.

Below is what I believe to be the relevant session info from my php.ini folder.....

[Session]

session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = :*****\sessiondata
session.use_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = /
session.cookie_domain = localhost
session.serialize_handler = php
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.referer_check =
session.entropy_length = 0
session.entropy_file =
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.cache_expire = 180
session.use_trans_sid = 0
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry"

I,m using the latest release of Foxserv on Windows XP

Thx for any help guys

[merkinmuffley]

i think that session_register() will reset the contents of the $counter variable. so you should use session_is_registered() to check whether that variable is already in the session, and only register it if it's not already there.

if (!session_is_registered('counter'))
{
    session_register('counter');
    $counter = 0;
}
$counter++;
...

[k_jazz]

session register just reset you r counter to 0 everytime..

it's like:

$a = new B;
$a->x=0;

$a->x++;
$a = new B;

$a->x++;
$a = new B;

$a->x++;
$a = new B;

[Recoil_UK]

Hi guys

Thx for the reply

I tried your suggestion but its still the same result.

I thought when you call session start that it should use a cookie, I think this is the problem.

L8rs