Session Trouble

[spighita]

Hello:
I upgraded my php from 4.06 to 4.32 and when I ran my php I got some error messages.

Warning: Unknown(): Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can disable this functionality and this warning by setting session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively. in Unknown on line 0

After some research I found out I cannot use

session_register("login");

So the other solution was to turn globals on

I did and it worked.

So now I have read this

session_start(); //starts the sessions

//registers the variables
$_SESSION['var1'] = $_POST['var1']; 
$_SESSION['var2'] = $_POST['var2'];
$_SESSION['var3'] = $_POST['var3'];

And want to use instead of session_register this $SESSION['var1'] = $POST['var1'];

So can anyone help me code this into the one I want to learn

<?
session_start();
session_register("SESSION");

if (! isset($SESSION)) {
	$SESSION["count"] = 0;
	echo "<li>Counter initialized, please reload this page to see it increment";
} else {
	echo "<li>Waking up session $PHPSESSID";
	$SESSION["count"]++;
}
echo "<li>The counter is now $SESSION[count] ";
?>

Thank in advance for anyone who helps.

[ajmoore]

The differences in how sessions are handled between the different versions are actually pretty simple. If you've got register globals turned on, use session_register to register your session variables. If register globals is off, use $_SESSION[].

Examples:
register_globals on

session_start();
session_register("variable");
$variable = "value";

register_globals off

session_start();
$_SESSION["variable"] = "value";

The second method(with register_globals turned off) is the preferred way of doing things. In your question there are two problems with your code. #1 you used $SESSION instead of $_SESSION. and #2 you used session_register() which is not necessary if you've got register_globals turned off

[spighita]

The code works ok and I got it from

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Commerce/Commerce2/page4.html

How can I make it run with register_globals off?

Thank you