sessions on Win XP and IIS

[okamosy]

I have been trying everything to get sessions to work on my machine running windows xp with IIS. The problem that I get is when I try to switch pages, PHP doesn't seem to see the previous session.

The only way that I have been able to get this to work is by giving each session a name, then passing the name and session id in the URL. This seems to be a very combersome hack, and I haven't seen any examples that require this.

Below is the code I'm trying to run (from the Luke Welling book)

/***page1.php****/
<?php
session_start ();
$_SESSION['sess_var'] = "Hello world!";

echo 'The content of $SESSION[\'sess_var\'] is '
.$SESSION['sess_var'].'<Br />';

echo '<A href="page2.php">Next page</A>';
?>

/***page2.php****/
<?php
session_start ();
echo 'The content of $SESSION['sess_var'] is '
.$SESSION['sess_var'].'<Br />';
?>

[Muntjewerf]

You have 2 errors in your script.

<?php 
session_start (); 
$_SESSION['sess_var'] = "Hello world!"; 

echo 'The content of $_SESSION[\'sess_var\']is ' 
.$_SESSION['sess_var'].'<Br />'; 

echo '<A href="page2.php">Next page</A>'; 
?> 

/******page2.php*******/ 
<?php 
session_start (); 
echo 'The content of $_SESSION[\'sess_var\']is ' 
.$_SESSION['sess_var'].'<Br />'; 
?>

You can't echo $_SESSION['sess_var'] without \ before '.