session help

itworks

i've made a complete site out of a tutorial in a book i bought, and i've double checked everything for errors and i haven't found any, so everything should work, right?

and everything works, well... almost everything.

see, the user has the possibility to register (which works) and to login (which works too) but when the user goes to another section after he logged in, he isn't logged anymore.

so this is a session problem, right?!

does anyone have a clue why it doesn't work?!

stolzyboy

yes, it probably is, and probably cuz you aren't using session_start(); at the top of every page you would like to keep the session, but for any of us to give a more thorough answer or even to be on the right track you may want to post some code where you think the problem may lie

itworks

thanks for your help but i'm confused, i just opened some pages of the site and only one that has a session_start(); is the index.php page.

but in the book they say it works from page to page.

since i only have it on the index.php page, then if i put <?php session_start(); ?> in the beggining of the other pages it will work, right?!

stolzyboy

yes, it should

Major_Tom

Sorry if I'm hijacking, but this sounds very similar to my problem... I just can't access session variables 🙁

I have this very simple code:

<?php
session_start();
session_register('count');

$count++;
echo "<p>You've been here $count times.  Thanks!</p>";
?>

This gives me the error:

Notice: Undefined variable: count in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\count_me.php on line 10

and $count == 1 every time I access the page (reloading).

My problem seems to be that the browser cannot access the seession. I have checked the session files generated, and they look fine:

count|i:1;

except for one fact: Each time I reload a new session is started, resetting the variables... 🙁

This worked fine home last night (Win2000/Omnihttpd/php4.2.3), but not here at work (Win2000/IIS5/php4.2.3). Is there something I have to turn on/activate in IIS5? 😕

Major_Tom

itworks: If you try the script I just posted (just paste it into a new file and try open then reload a few times) - does the counter increment? If you get the same error I do it seems to be a server error.

That script works on two servers I have tested (one Omnihttpd one apache), not on two others (both IIS)...

itworks

has you said stolzyboy, it should work, but it doesn't.

here's some information that might help see the whole picture.

my site has a index.php page and all the others are loaded this way (eg. <a href=index.php?page=contacts></a> ) so the user never leaves the index page right?

and if the index page has session_start(); then it should do the trick, but why the hell doesn't?!

thanks in advance!

stolzyboy

yes that should do the trick, sorry, can't give you anymore suggestions, sometime it is hard to help people thru forums, especially with sessions

itworks

Major Tom i've tried has you requested and it works fine, of course i'm working with apache and has you said it works good on apache.

itworks

i'm starting to think this might be a configuration problem, maybe the php.ini file, are there any tricks i should know about? (i'm using windows).

the mail function in all mail form processor scripts i have download and made also doesn't work, could this be due to configuration too?

thanks in advance.

Major_Tom

Originally posted by itworks
Major Tom i've tried has you requested and it works fine, of course i'm working with apache and has you said it works good on apache.

Hm... Seems to be a different problem that mine then.

What PHP version are you running on that Apache?

Major_Tom

Originally posted by itworks
i'm starting to think this might be a configuration problem, maybe the php.ini file, are there any tricks i should know about? (i'm using windows).

the mail function in all mail form processor scripts i have download and made also doesn't work, could this be due to configuration too?

thanks in advance.

You'll have to configure PHP to work with your mailsystem:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP =localhost

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from =me@localhost.com

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =