Sessions and cookies??

[Recoil_UK]

Hi guys

Quick question

I you use

session_start();

is it supposed to create a cookie by default, and if it does, should I be able to see it in my temp internet folder?

Thx guys

[tasistro]

check out

session_register

Saludos
Gerardo

[merkinmuffley]

first yes, it's supposed to create and send the cookie by default.

second, no, the kind of cookie that contains your session ID won't show up in that folder. it's what IE calls a "per-session cookie", it's stored in browser memory and destroyed when the browser instance is closed.

i looked back at your original session-problem post and maybe you need to set session.cookie_domain to empty? unless you really are running the webserver and client only on one machine, and viewing the website as http://localhost/whatever.

[Recoil_UK]

Hi thx for the reply

Here is my php.ini in all its glory ( well the sesion related stuff anyway ) and it still doesnt work.

[Session]
session.save_handler = files

session.save_path = *:\sessiondata

session.use_cookies = 1

session.name = PHPSESSID

session.auto_start = 1

session.cookie_lifetime = 0

session.cookie_path = /

session.cookie_domain =

session.serialize_handler = php

session.gc_probability = 1

session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

session.referer_check =

session.entropy_length = 0

session.entropy_file =

;session.entropy_length = 16

;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom

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"

and here is the actual code i,m running...

<?
session_start();
session_register("SESSION");

echo "Your current Session ID is, $PHPSESSID";

if (! isset($SESSION)) {
$SESSION["count"] = 0;
echo "<li>Counter initialized, please reload this page to see it increment";
} else {
echo "<li>Waking up session $PHPSESSID";
$SESSION["count"]++;
}
echo "<li>The counter is now $SESSION[count] ";
?>

So it should work, but its not.

Any idea,s??

Thx again

[merkinmuffley]

I still think it's a bad idea to always call session_register(), but I can't say with 100% conviction that it's part of the problem. What is the behavior you're seeing? questions:
- Does it tell you "Counter initialized" every time you refresh?
- Do you see the same session ID each time you refresh?

Here's an alternate version of your script that uses the superglobal $_SESSSION array instead of session_register().

<? 
session_start(); 

echo "Your current Session ID is, $PHPSESSID"; 

if (! isset($_SESSION["count"])) { 
    $_SESSION["count"] = 0; 
    echo "<li>Counter initialized, please reload this page to see it increment"; 
} else { 
    echo "<li>Waking up session $PHPSESSID"; 
    $_SESSION["count"]++; 
} 
echo "<li>The counter is now ".$_SESSION["count"]; 
?> 

[Recoil_UK]

Hi

Thx m8, thats done the trick, WOOOHHOOOOOOOOO

Just one thing...

$PHPSESSID doesnt contain a value, which probably means i,m just trying to access the wrong variable or something.

What are your thoughts.

Oh btw.

Why does every tutorial i,ve seen tell you to do the previous way, when it doesnt work, and your way does?? just curious because if its going to be like this all the time, i,m in for a rough journey learning PHP.

Thx again

[Aeiri]

Most programming is trial and error. And PHP isn't that good at error reporting, so debugging is a pain. After awhile you can understand that when you get something like "Unexpected $ on line #" that you have missed a ")" somewhere above (WAY different i know, but that's how bad PHP is at error reporting) and you'll spend about 2 hours debugging because of it. It's BAD and annoying! They need to fix their error reporting and PHP will be unstoppable by any other language.

I sorta got completely off subject... but that's alright 😃

[Recoil_UK]

<?
session_start();

if (! isset($SESSION["count"])) {
$SESSION["count"] = 0;
echo "<li>Counter initialized, please reload this page to see it increment";
} else {
echo "<li>Waking up session ".session_id();
$SESSION["count"]++;
}
echo "<li>The counter is now ".$SESSION["count"];
?>

There we go success, and I sorted it myself this time

Mwhahahahahaha

L8rs