[Resolved] [Resolved] Problems with Sessions

[MrGoo]

I am helping with a a php/sql enhanced data site located at http://odn.acalltoduty.com/ We have a few problems.

We where tryng to fix the code after moving the site to a new machine. This php site was developed by hand by a former staff member. It is unlike any other php site. We began with a problem where you would get auto logged out of the website after browseing it just a few second. It was like the server was not keeping the session data. We added a session_start() proc to the main header but then sound that it caused an error in the logout.php file where it would not log out instead you get the following error.

Warning: Trying to destroy uninitialized session in /home/sites/odn/auth/logout.php on line 4

Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/sites/odn/auth/logout.php:4) in /home/sites/odn/_inc/page.inc on line 12

we added session_start to page.inc

function doheader()
{
	session_start();
?>

Before it was Just...

function doheader()
{
?>

Now if we remove the addition to fix the error in the log out page, we try to login and it won't even bring up the login page at all it just bounces back to index.php. If we have it in there we are able to login, atleast it i indicated that we are logged in but In trueth all pages there after do a dologin_check and It still treats us like we are not logged in.

Any thoughts on any of this?

[jayant]

I guess you had register_globals as 'on' at prev. PC

you can either turn it on in php.ini and see if all works fine.
if all is fine then it means, you should either keep it on or change the code for it to work with register_globals off.
also, one should use $_SESSION and not session_register to register sessions, that could also be a problem.

[MrGoo]

Okay:

We found out the problem o our sessions. The session files server side located in /tmp are being posted with the wrong time stamp. Like 6 hours offset. By changeing gabase dumping to 8.5 hours we gaind an hour and a half of actual session time. It seems the system timer is a bit off.

[jayant]

Great, now lets mark the post resolved 🙂
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