Session Problem

pisco

I am having a really hard time getting session to work on my develpment machine.

The following code works no problem on my commercial host but returns nothing on my machine.

<?php

session_start();

$url_sid = "?" . $PHPSESSID;
$user_name = "None";
$validated = "No";

session_register("url_sid");
session_register("user_name");
session_register("validated");

?>

<?php

echo "URL SID: " . $_SESSION["url_sid"] . "<br>";
echo "User Name: " . $_SESSION["user_name"] . "<br>";
echo "Validated: " . $_SESSION["validated"] . "<br>";

?>

I suspect that it is a configuration problem of some kind but I can't figure out what I need to change to get this to work.

I am running Mac OS X with Apache and PHP 4.

celibate54

i'm definetely not an expert but I see some things I don't quite understand...do you have register globals on? if so i'd recommend turning them off.

so instead of

session_register('blahblah');
it'd be 
$_SESSION['blahblah'] = $blahblah or whatever

i suspect because you are using session_register
when you call $_SESSION it's not finding the 'same' values as you'd expect because they are seperate arrays

pisco

I will give that a try. I have been working from examples in a book and off of the internet and they all seem to assume that global variables are available.

Thanks.

Edited to add - There is another component of the problem. If I echo the value of SID I do get a Session ID but it changes everytime I load the page. This would suggest to me that a new session is being created everytime I load the page. I can't imagine why it would do that.