[Resolved] Session discrepancies

[Norman_Graham]

Hi all

I just tested a few scripts involving sessions in my own environment (WinXP, Apache 2, PHP 4.3). Everything worked as intended. I then loaded the scripts up to my hoster (Linux, Apache 1.3, PHP 4.3) and now they don't work at all - the session isn't registered.

I am assuming globals off and have used the $_SESSION superglobal as the manual specifies, so I am not using session_register() or session_is_registered() and am not relying on the session_autostart setting in php.ini.

Any idea what I should check to find out what the problem is?

Thanks for your suggestions

Norm

[LordShryku]

Well, first thing to check would be the php.ini config for sessions. Turn on error_reporting to E_ALL to see if it outputs an error. It might just have a bad session.save_path or something along those lines.

[Norman_Graham]

Thanks for that Lord Shryku

It turns out I simply misunderstood how sessions work. I didn't have session_start() at the top of the script which was checking whether a session variable had been set. I thought sessions were like a record of what a particular user did on my website, so you start the session once and then end it when the actions you want tracked are finished. I didn't realize that you have to have session_start() at the top of every script. I still find this weird because to me it means you are starting a NEW session every time, but obviously I'm mistaken.

Anyway, it's all working now.

Thanks for your help

Norm