SESSIONS Going Stark Raving Maddddd

[nelsons]

Damn, thats a title fit for this situation.....

Running EasyPHP in english as a dev environment. PHP v4.3.3 Apache/1.3- php.ini is as follows:

session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = "C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-7\tmp\"
session.use_cookies = 0
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0

Each page as a

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['name'] = "bob";
?>

Subsequent pages have the save session_start(); and
<? echo $_SESSION['name']; ?>

Sessions are NOT carrying from page to page. If I do an echo session ID, I get completely different IDs on each reload of the same page.

Please tell me someone else has gotten through this maddness. Its been 2 days screwing with this.

Hope I have been able to provide all relevant information.

[Shrike]

I notice that your php.ini has session.use_cookies = 0: is the session ID being propagated for each request in the URL?

[nelsons]

No - it does not appear so.

[rehfeld]

well, sessions REQUIRE that a session id be propagated is some way. your 2 choices are cookies, or through the url. the default and generally prefered way is with cookies. you can use both.

change
session.use_cookies = 0
to
session.use_cookies = 1

to use cookies.

if you want to pass the sid through the url in the event cookies arent enabled, set

session.use_trans_sid = 1
session.use_only_cookies = 0

you will prob need to restart your webserver after editing php.ini for the settings to take effect.