Session Problem

php_matt_k

I have a problem with my sessions. I dont know what is going on. The sessions are not going from page to page.. i can access the session variable on the first page that i set it on.. but once i move to the second page it isnt there... i also noticed that when i click on a link on the second page.. it appends the sessionid to the post variables... what is going on!? im losing my mind.

This is the first page, basically:

<?
session_start ();
header("Cache-control: private");
?>

blah blah blah
<?
$temp = 1;
$SESSION['logged_in'] = $temp;
echo $SESSION['logged_in'];
?>

It echos 1.. as it should...

then when i move to page 2....
i start the session... and try to reference the session var.. and it doesnt work..

weekender

this is down to the session.save_handler setting in your php.ini - if set to FILES, it will store sessions as files on the server. Can't remember the other settings, but one of them (possibly POST) appends the sess_id to the url for all links.

change your php.ini if you can to make it permanent, or use ini_set() to set it per page.

adam

php_matt_k

I just went and checked that.. it is set to files already.

This is kinda wierd... When i originally posted... the url i was using was

http://127.0.0.1/login.php

then i was doing a client side redirect, to plain old index.php. It wasnt working then. So i went to http://12.xx.xx.xx/login.php (my internet ip) and changed the rediret to http://12.xx.xx.xx/index.php and it worked.. but if i navigated through the links (the links never actually leave the page.. it just modifies the post variables i.e. index.php?page=home) and came back to where i was displaying the variable.. it didnt show anymore

php_matt_k

Whew... problem solved FINALLY.. i had a few friends try and go to the link.. to see what'd happen.. and they had NO problems.. so i figured somthing was wrong with my browser.. i made sure that my cookies and session cookies were enabled.. and they were.. no luck still.. so i decided to get SP1 for IE6.. and it works fine now! WOO HOO