Sessions Nightmare

[PiercedKnob]

Hi,

I am playing with sessions at the moment, and everything is working perfectly apart from one minor detail which i was hoping could be fixed.

My site is built up of a sidebar.php file which is used to display my login box & counter.

The login box (sidebar.php) can access the $SESSION variables without any problem when i am accessing php files in the root of my website. If i go into a subfolder and access a php file that uses this same sidebar.php file, i loose the $SESSION variable in sidebar.php. The document in the subfolder maintains it !

We i then go back to the root of my site, sidebar.php picks them back up.

Very odd really and i have no idea what is going on.

Any help would be welcome as i don't want to redesign the site with everything in the root.

Kind Regards

Wayne

[acidbox]

Try this link, its the best, easy to use, session script out there.

http://www.cheetah-soft.com/csh/

[PiercedKnob]

Hi

thanks for the reply but i was hoping to get my own script working. I have done more testing and i can now replicate the problem with pages in the root of my site.

Basically i have found that when i do the

include ('sidebar.php')

it works fine but, for pages that are in sub folders if i do

include ('http://www.wmcards.co.uk/sidebar.php')

it falls over. I have tried to find a way of doing this include different like for example;

include ('/sidebar.php') and include ('../sidebar.php')

but i have not been able to find a way of getting rid of the FQDN at the beggining.

Has anyone else come across this problem ?

Kind Regards

Wayne

[bobthedog]

The reason

include ('http://www.wmcards.co.uk/sidebar.php') 

isn't working is because it is coming through the webserver, which is parsing the file and including the output of the parsed php file, so if the script doesn't print anything and is only responsible for setting some variables then nothing will be included. (since setting variables does'nt produce any output)

include ('sidebar.php')

should work as long as it is in the same dir as the file you are including from. If sidebar.php is one directory above then

include ('../sidebar.php')

Finally, I don;'t understand what you mean about getting rid of the FQDn. Surely you are the one who typed it in??

[PiercedKnob]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Every php file in my website displays a side bar on the left hand side of the screen. The way i have inplemented this is by just typing :

include ("sidebar.php");

The problem came up when i started to organise the website into folders. For example, i have a folder hierarchy of /tradingcardsets/buffy/connections and in here i have some more php pages. I was unable to call the sidebar.php using the above code which is farenough as it isn't in the correct directory. I then tried to get around this by typeing include ("/sidebar.php") and include ("../sidebar.php") which didn't work. The only way i could get this to work is by typeing include ("http://www.wmcards.co.uk/sidebar.php").

Now this is where i am getting the problems. When I use include ("sidebar.php") all is grand, when i use include ("http://www.wmcards.oc.uk/sidebar.php") it doesn't recognise the session variable $_SESSION. In my login box within the sidebar.php page i am testing to see if they have logged in and display 'logged in' or a login prompt. This is where the problems are arising.

The only fixes i can see are :-

1. Move all my pages to the root, which i don't really wanna do.
2. Copy sidebar.php into each directory, again i don't really wanna do this
3. Write all the session information into my database and access it in that manor (means more work but not too difficult)
4. Would like to try and find a way to get something like include ("../sidebar.php") working, must be able to do something like that but all my attempts have failed.

Thanks in advance for your help and sorry if i have waffled a little here.

Regards

Wayne

[PiercedKnob]

Hehe,

Sorry, i have just twigged that you have given me the answer

include ('../sidebar.php') - Goes up one level.

I have put include ('../../../sidebar.php') into my code and its all now working 🙂

Thanks for your help

Wayne