another PHP session problem (same session ID in all browser windows)

platformx

here's the problem,

when i use session handling in a PHP script (both on Apache under WIN2000 and linux/unix servers) if I access the script it starts a session like it should. If at the same time someone else runs the script form a different IP, it creates another session for that machine, also like it should. However if I open several browser windows on one machine and i run the script on all of them, it uses the same session ID for them all.

I'd like it to open a new session with each browser window, even if they all are on the same machine. Does anyone know if this can be handled somehow? Is it related to an option in php.ini or is it just the way PHP works?

Shrike

You get one session cookie (and so one session) per browser, not browser window. Try connecting on the same machine with both two different browsers (IE/Mozilla).

This is nothing to do with PHP.

If you wanted to use different browser windows, you'd have to do a nasty hack like create some unique id per window with javascript, store it in the session and pass it using javascript each time you changed pages. You could then identify each window by the unique id. Why do you want to do this anyway? 🙂

platformx

Well, the script i'm building works with user accounts and a user can potentially have more than 1 account. It would be nice if the user could simulteniously open more than 1 account on the same machine withoug having the accounts intermix because of the identical session.

tree_buddy

I may be looking to do something similar. I would like to find out if, when you open one page, another page can be spawed (i can do that part), but have that second spawed page control the the session variables or submit a form on the first page. The "control" window should stay open until the original window is closed. Is this just too much work, or should I persue it?!