Sessions just not working...

[Furries]

Ok, I'm new to all this but I'm only trying a simple piece of code. It seems that sessions just are not working at all. Heres the code I that doesn't work:

session1.php:
<?php

session_start();
session_register("sess_var");
$sess_var = "hello world";
echo "sessvar = :".$sess_var;

?>
<a href = "session2.php"> Next "</a>

session2.php
<?
session_start();
echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["sess_var"];
echo "content of session is :" . $sess_var;
?>

My understand is that the output from session2.php should have "hello world" in it somewhere, instead all I get is:
"content of session is :"

Any help much apprechiated!

Jon

[Kudose]

How about:

Code provided by http://www.spechal.com

index.php

<?
session_start();
$session = 'hello world';
$_SESSION['sessionname'] = $session;
<a href='next.php'>Next</a>
?>

next.php

<? 
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['sessionname'];
?>

[Furries]

Thanks for the code but it still doesn't want to work. I'm begining to think it might be a setting in my PHP.ini file. I just set

session.use_trans_sid = 1

instead of 0 but that doesn't seem to have helped. Any ideas on setting up PHP.ini to get sessions working? (in php4.3.4)

[weekender]

php will already have session support enabled as default.

the problem with the first code is that you were registering $_SESSION['sess_var'], then assigning a value to $sess_var - which is a completely different variable. You need to assign $sess_var and then register it in the session

adam

[Furries]

Ah I see, ok. I have updated my code and the revised version is as follows:

session1.php

<?
session_start();
$sess_var = "hello world";
session_register('sess_var');
echo "sessvar = :".$sess_var;
?>
<a href = "session2.php"> Next "</a> 

session2.php

<?
session_start();
echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['sess_var'];
echo "content of session is :" . $sess_var;
?>

I still get no output after getting to session2.php other than "content of session is :".

What am I doing wrong!!!

[tekky]

<?php
// Use of session_register() is deprecated
$barney = "A big purple dinosaur.";
session_register("barney");

// Use of $_SESSION is preferred, as of PHP 4.1.0
$_SESSION["zim"] = "An invader from another planet.";

// The old way was to use $HTTP_SESSION_VARS
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS["spongebob"] = "He's got square pants.";
?> 

also I believe what weekender meant to do... is

$_SESSION['varname'] = $var;

since that is the now acceptable way of registering session values

[Furries]

Found my problem, seems it was with the PHP.ini file as I thought. The problem is that I have PHP installed under windows and by default the session.save_path = /tmp, this is of course an invalid directory in windows so I changed it to "C:\php\tmp" and now its working fine 🙂

Thanks for the quick responses!