I still can't seem to open the session file. 🙁
It's my understanding that when a user starts a session, a copy of the cookie is saved on the server. I can get the session id from the client, which lets me find which session file they are using. I can then open it in a text editor and look at it. There is nothing wrong with the file, and it's not locked.
At first I thought the session file was locked, since the script was using it. fopen() returns a handle when I open it for reading though, so it must be accessible.
fread returns nothing. function_exists("fread") returns true.
I don't know if the module is run in safe_mode or not, but if function_exists("fread") returns true then it should work regardless.
I am at my wits end. It frustrating not being able to open a simple text file on my own server from a script on the same server!
Here's the sloppy function that i am using. It works when I run it on my server from other domains (virtualhosted domains). It would be more clean with regular expressions, but I am not good with those:
function get_session_value_from_file($pid,$skey) {
//takes the session id and the key and returns it's value of the key from the server side cookie
$filename = "C:\\\\Apache2\\\\session\\\\sess_".$pid; //valid windows session folder path
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose ($handle);
$tmpval=explode(";",$contents);
//now find key...
for($i=0;$i<count($tmpval);$i++) {
$tmpval2=explode("|",$tmpval[$i]);
if ($tmpval2[0]==$skey) {
$newval=explode("\"",$tmpval[$i]);
return $newval[1];
}
}
return false;
}
The reason that I have to do all this is that I am trying to access cookies from multiple domains on the same server. For some reason I can get the session_id(), but not session variables. In the function above, fopen works, but fread doesn't return anything unless the page is on another domain than where the session was started.
