annoying session problem

stupidfool

I have an annoying problem where a session variable does not change. To see it in action, go to www.nbstamps.com/new and click on any type of stamp. After that, go to the specials page. This currently shows the array that contains the information on the stamp you are making. You'll notice that once this is set, it does not change. Go back to making a stamp and create whatever you want. Then go to the specials page and you'll notice that nothing has changed. Because of this problem, when you add a stamp to your shopping cart, it will always show up as whatever type of stamp you chose first and it will not have a message when you try to edit it. Any advice on this? It works fine on my own server, although it is outdated (php 4.04 still installed).

FrozNic

are u doing:
session_start();
on every page?

scoppc

It is better for you to post you shopping cart here...
I guess that there might be something wrong with your control structure. Try to debug by examining what input goes in and what output you get in return. I mean... in each and every process within the script.
Echoing should be the best way.

stupidfool

Yeah, I'm using session_start() on each page. I tried echoing everything on the page. What's annoying is that the variable is correctly displayed on the create a stamp page, but as soon as you go to another page, it is reset to whatever it was when it was first set. All of the other variables do what they're supposed to. This is the weirdest thing. Everything appears that it should work, and does on my server, but not on this server.

scoppc, do mean I should submit the form to the shopping cart page? That sounds like a good idea right now. Just wanted to know if anybody had this problem before and see if there was a quicker fix.

Thanks

stupidfool

I just thought I'd let everybody know how I fixed this. I simply put all of the if statements involving the array that was causing problems AFTER the variables in it the didn't require the if. (does that make sense?)

Basically, instead of:

if(something) $array['something']=$something;
else(something) $array['something']=$somethingelse;

$array=array(
'size'=$a,
'style'=$b,
'stupid'=$whatever
);

I did this:

$array=array(
'size'=$a,
'style'=$b,
'stupid'=$whatever
);

if(something) $array['something']=$something;
else(something) $array['something']=$somethingelse;

FrozNic

yeah, that could fix it 🙂 gj

scoppc

That means the problem lies on your program flow.
The IF caused the problem just becoz you put it in the wrong line. 🙂