Sessions query

siwis

I'm new to sessions and in my earliest experiment I've added a basic session_start(); all my pages by means of an included file.

The query I have is that upon echo'ing that session id value out to screen, the first page has one session id and yet the next and all subsequent pages have a second id (although once the second page has been entered this second id does subsequently remain static.

Similarly, if I refresh the first page, the id constantly changes until I visit a second page at which point the id of the second page call remains constant.

Now, am I being daft in my implementation or is this usual behaviour. I expected that the first page would create the session and ALL subsequent calls should adopt the first pages' session id.

Puzzled??

planetsim

We it sounds like the page your including has another include in it. Well if that is the case. You must not try include - > include and it should work i had a problem like that.

siwis

I'll give it a go and report 🙂

siwis

No change.....

named.php includes config_locn.php includes config.php

ie the named scripts in the site all call the same configuration file, although this configuration file contains only an absolute server path to include the true config file located outside the web tree.

Initially, I placed the start_session(); command into the true config file (ie second included file. After the last comment, I removed the start_session() from that file and placed it into the first config file (ie the one with the server path to the true config file.

This also did not result in any change.

I'm now adding the session_start to the actual scripts for the site and this remedies the problem, but I had hoped to avoid doing things this way if at all possible.

siwis

OK, tis fixed.

My concern was as follows....

I have a system which controls 20 individual websites. Each site has a duplicate set of request scripts, each of which includes the central master application script which actually does all the nitty gritty. By doing it this way, I only have to edit that central control script to update every site using my system.

However, my concern was that if I could not start_session() within an included file, I'd have to manually edit all 20 of those sites, which understandably was not really on my wishlist!

Anyway, I've done a quick test and adding the session_start(); to the included central control script does the job, so thanks planetsim for pointing out the initial problem.