Sessions

[THE_BIG_CHEESE]

WHat are the different kinds of sessions (how do you set them)?

I know abot $_Session and $HTTP_SESSION_VARS but are there others?

The reason i am saking this is because $_Session works on my intranet but not in the internet and $HTTP_SESSION_VARS doesnt work anywhere.

Thanks a lot!!

[bobthedog]

Which one works for you depends on which version of PHP youare running.

Your best bet is to go look up "sessions" in the manual (www.php.net)

[jeremuck]

if you do:

<pre>
<?php print_r($GLOBALS); ?>
</pre>

that will show you all the variables you can access and how you can access them.

so, fire up tests of the ones you know about (use the manual) and see what you can access.

[THE_BIG_CHEESE]

i tried what both of you said and the server is runnin the latest version

when i did that globals thing, there was nothing about sessions anywhere!

what do i do?

thanks a lot!!!

[jeremuck]

well... you haven't posted any code... so..

you usually fire up a session using session_start();
then you register some variables using session_register("text");

now, depending on your setup, you can access text like:

echo $text;
echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['text'];
echo $_SESSION['text'];

again, it depends on your configuration... You can use get_ini() to detect which you need to do.

you should find a lot of very useful information and notes on:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

anyway I recommend doing this:

function myinfo($array)
{
  echo "<pre>";
  print_r($array);
  echo "</pre>";
}


session_start();
session_register("text");

myinfo($GLOBALS);
myinfo($_SESSION);

$text = "hello world";
myinfo($GLOBALS);
myinfo($_SESSION);

$_SESSION['text'] = "hello world two";
myinfo($GLOBALS);
myinfo($_SESSION);

$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['text'] = "hello world three";
myinfo($GLOBALS);
myinfo($_SESSION);

[THE_BIG_CHEESE]

2 questions

What would that code tell me?

And ive tried all three and they dont work.

I am attaching the two files below

By the way, thanks for all the help so far!

[jeremuck]

when the arrays get printed, you look for the variables and the values.
Some of them you might see, and some you might not.
The ones you see work, and you should use the variables that way.

[THE_BIG_CHEESE]

i see all of them but in the actuall code they dont work

[jeremuck]

ok.
when I run the script I gave you before,
the last GLOBALS array looks like this:

array
(
.................
[HTTP_SESSION_VARS] => Array
(
[text] => hello world three
)

[text] => hello world
[_SESSION] => Array
    (
        [text] => hello world two
    )

...................

}
This is extremely useful information. This shows me how to acess my variables.
the key names to the global array are the left most indentation marked with square bracket [].
The keys are:
HTTP_SESSION_VARS
text
_SESSION
since these are in the GLOBAL array, I don't need to access them using GLOBAL.

because of the way it's shown,
I know I can access it like this:
$text
or
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['text'];
or
$_SESSION['text']

and it will give me what I want.

anyway, let me see the output of when you run that script, and maybe I can help

[THE_BIG_CHEESE]

the output is loacted here ---> http://www.zspages.com/bbb/admin/install/tests.php