session vars and frames

spaceGhost

ok what the f*k

has anyone had problems with sessions vars used within framesets, because I've got a page that works just fine at the _top of a window but in a frameset, can't seem to remember the session.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

JDcrack

OK...
it would seem that on your _top php page, it is checking for your session var.

On your _bottom php page, are you also checking for your session var?

IE:
this is an example, where it uses a cookie and assuming the session var = sessId
this would be at the top of both top.php and bottom.php

if(isset($_COOKIE["sessId"])) 
{ 
return $_COOKIE["sessId"]; 
} 
else 
{ 
session_start();
setcookie("sessId", session_id(), time() + ((3600 * 24) * 30));
return session_id();
}

Hope that helps!

spaceGhost

hi, guess I shoulda put in some more details on what's happening...

I'm working on a banner server file that gets lists of what IDs to use in each section of a site. These ID's are stored as arrays in session vars.

Every file in the site includes a config file with tests for the existence of these lists to see if they have been generated yet.

Take a look at http://www2.mvsb.com/frame_top.php

This is the 'top frame' file for the internet banking area of the site. I threw in some Javascript to write the PHPSESSID value to the screen.

Now go to http://www2.mvsb.com (the site's home page), and click the netBanking button (top left) to launch the complete frameset.

You'll notice the alert has no value, even though this is exactly the same file.

What I'm wondering if somehow the frame is not able to read the PHPSESSID cookie, or it's getting blown away with each request, or something like that, but I can't find anything anywhere that covers this subject.

JDcrack

Hmmm...
I found that your very first ad " ... did you know"
Seems to not have a sessid var assigned to it. ( JS comes up blank)

When I click refresh, or open the page with any other ad,
I get a sess ID.
This maybe a problem with your array or something else.

spaceGhost

when you refresh the frameset, you get a session ID in the alert box? funny, no matter how many times I refresh, I get a blank alert.

The alert pops up the PHPSESSID, not the ID associated with the banner.

Since the script isn't getting the session vars, it defaults to the first banner in the array, which is always the '...did you know' banner.

orangechicken

I'm running in to this issue too.

The index page is the frameset. In this page it starts the session, does some stuff, and sets $_SESSION[ 'account_name'] equal to something.

Everything fine and good. Echoing out $_SESSION[ 'account_name' ] shows the value.

In the first page of the frameset, I start the session and try echoing out the account_name: blank. Upon refresh, the session variable is there and with the correct value!!!!

I should mention that this exact code works on another server (at the same host). The only difference is that this one (the broken one) has .htaccess authentication.

I seriously can't figure it out. If someone has any ideas - post 'em.

Thanks,
chicken