Session testing error

jdr0606

I'm trying to figure out sessions but when I run a simple test script I'm getting a CGI error.

The error I'm getting is: "The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:"

The script I'm running is:

<?php
session_start();
$SESSION["test"] = "Hello";
$SESSION["test1"] = "Hello1";
$SESSION["test2"] = "Hello2";
$SESSION["test3"] = "Hello3";
$_SESSION["test4"] = "Hello4";
?>

Any ideas?

Thanks

dancahill

What you are doing there doesn't really make sense. The idea with sessions is you have to register any session variables explicitly.

The basic thing with sessions is:

session_start(); //as you've done

$ var = //however you want to assign this variable.

session_register("$var");

//Go to page2.php

The whole point with sessions is it manages state between pages or over a period of time. Therefore you would only access the session variable $var on a subsequent page.

As such on the next page you could call the variable registered on the previous page as:

Page2.php

$var = HTTP_SESSION_VARS["$var"];

//use as you need to

There are some good articles on this site under the tutorial sections about sessions - have a look at some of them

Dan

jdr0606

Thanks for the note! I'll take a look at the tutorial

jdr0606

Just as a followup to the suggestion, I used the example for a simple test and I'm still getting the error: "The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:"

I'm thinking this may be a configuration problem not necessarily a session problem.

Any ideas?

dancahill

Are PHP scripts running on your box at the moment?

jdr0606

Yes! I have a Gallery site running using PHP scripts.

I'm looking at some of the install articles to see if they help.

Thanks

Jeff...

jdr0606

This code is running in a different site structure than the PHP site that is working.

After further review I did find that the directory containing the sample code was not configured correctly and after correcting, the CGI error went away and my session variables worked.

Thanks for the help and suggestions!

Jeff...