session_register -> PHP has encountered an Access Violation

telly

I'am new to PHP but I work with ColdFusion for a couple of years. So this question might have a simple answer but I drives me almost crazy.

Php Code:

<?
session_start();
echo "<h1>".session_save_path() ."</h1>";
session_register("blue");

?>

Browser shows:

c:/tmp

PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 01289872

System: Windows NT SP 6a, IIS 4 and PHP 4.3.1

I gave all the permissions to access the temp folder, but I get allways the silly error. The code works fine untill I add the line session_register("blue").

Thanks for helping.
telly

jeremuck

Themanual says that

session_save_path() returns the path of the current directory used to save session data. If path is specified, the path to which data is saved will be changed. session_save_path() needs to be called before session_start() for that purpose.

Quoted from the user notes at the above link.
It's probably worth a shot.

I had the problem that PHP couldn't use session_start(), because there was no such file or directory.
It had to do with session.save_path = /tmp in the PHP.ini file.
I use Apache2, php4, and windows 2000.
I tried to change the path in every possible combination, like qouting, with/without drive letter, forwardslashes/backwardslashes, and restarting the server every time. But it didn't help.

Then I copied an example from PHP.ini from the [directory] section, (include_path = ".;c:\php\includes").
I used this a the base for setting up the session.save_path = /tmp, only replacing the 'c:\php\includes' with 'c:\WINNT\Temp'.

I restarted the server and it worked, so if you got the same problem, try using 'session.save_path = ".;c:\WINNT\Temp"'

telly

Unfortunatly this did not help. I changed the session_save_path to ".;c:\WINNT\Temp" and the include_path to ".;c:\php\includes" and restarted the WWW Service. The path got registred, the Access Violation remained.

In the Attachment you find the php.ini file. Just in case.

Also interesting, I set session.save_handler to "mm" wich indicates PHP to use the memory and not the files to store the sessions - So why do I get an Access Violation by using memory?

Thanks
Telly

jeremuck

The manual entry indicates that order matters.

Are you calling session save before session start?

telly

session save was called after session_start. But anyway...

I changed the location of the sessions into c:/php/sessions. That worked out fine. Allthow on the first location I gave sufficant rights for php to access the folder where the session files are located, php did not like it.

Thanks for helping
Telly