What am i doing wrong ?

[mortadelle]

This script :

session_start();
$product1 = "Cocker Spaniels";
$product2 = "Egyptian Geese";
session_register('product1');
session_register('product2');
print session_encode();
print_r($HTTP_SESSION_VARS);
echo "<br>";
print_r($_SESSION);

When executed for the first time on wy webhost simply return the session_encode but none of the $_SESSION or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS (they are not even empty they just dont exist) ...

Now when i make a refresh .. tadda .. it works, i've got the session_encode and $SESSION AND $HTTP_SESSION_VARS ..
Then i refresh couples of times and then tada !! nothing : i've only got the session_encode and no $SESSION or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS

and on and on and on .....

my webhost use 4.2.3 with NT5 & Website 3.1 ....

When i do some test on my local server (NT4 + apache + 4.2.3) everything is fine (too bad this server is not online) ...

Note : If i made this :

session_start();
$_SESSION["product1"] = "Cocker Spaniels";
$_SESSION["product2"] = "Egyptian Geese";
print session_encode();
	print_r($HTTP_SESSION_VARS);
echo "<br>";
print_r($_SESSION);

I've got nothing else than the $SESSION array ... not the session_encode or the $HTTP_SESSION_VARS
But after many refresh sometimes i've got the $HTTP_SESSION_VARS array too .... and then again i've got only the $SESSION

In every case my conclusion is that Sessions are not well supported on this server !??
Because it should never work or work all the time not half of time ....

What do you think ?

[tomhath]

Found this in the manual:

Additionally, if you register a new session variable by using session_register(), the entry in the global scope and the $SESSION entry will not reference the same value until the next session_start() (this applies to PHP 4.2 and before only). I.e. a modification to the global variable will not be reflected by the $SESSION entry. This is unlikely to matter in practice and has been corrected in PHP 4.3.

[mortadelle]

ok maybe my script was a bad exemple ..

here is what i try to do (and that fails with my webhost ) :

A session based authentification system :

first page :

login.php  : 
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION) && sizeof($_SESSION)>0) 
{
    session_unset(); // session_destroy
}


function Identify($login,$mdp)
{
 global $sess_id, $link, $PHPSESSID, $_SESSION, $HTTP_SESSION_VARS;
//... DATABASE request ... it's matching then :
    $sess_id=$var->id;
    session_register("sess_id");	
/*
note :
i've ttried this too : 
   $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["sess_id"]=$sess_id;
or $_SESSION["sess_id"]=$sess_id;
*/

  header("Location: index.php?PHPSESSID=".$PHPSESSID);
  exit();
}

// When the form is posted :

if (isset($login) && Trim($login)!="" && isset($mdp) && Trim($mdp)!="")
{
  Identify($login, $mdp);
}

and finally of course the HTML form with method = POST and action = login.php ang html input login & mdp...

Second page :

index.php 

session_start();

if (!isset($_SESSION['sess_id']))
{
	header("location: login.php");
}

include "page1.php";
include "page2.php";
....

In my index.php are included all the files i display...
So each time i made a form or url link, i pass the PHPSESSID value and the session is recognized and go on working.

But sometimes it dont ! Exemple, if i do some refresh on a page that has been recognized, it work and in a while (never the same time ) it fails.

I dont get a damm why ?? it's like the session was destroyed in index.php sometimes and sometimes not ?

Anyone could explain me why ?? or is it my structure that is bad ? Moreover as this always work on my local server i though it was fine .....

Thx for help because i'm stuck on this for a long time ....

[jesus_hairdo]

Is this after any particular time period between loads?

There is a setting in php.ini which sets a session timeout, so if the session is not accessed for a fixed time, it will kill it,

Perhaps this is the cause ??

Jamie