Session Problem

grum

Can someone help me with this wee problem

I've got a shopping cart which stores the items in a session.

The problem is I've modified it to work with securetrading which requires credit card entry on their server.

Once the transaction is complete and find your way back to my server the shopping cart still shows the items which have just been bought.

I tried to destroy the session using a script using the callback funtion once the transaction is successful.

Anybody have any ideas?

kburger

Don't kill the session (unless that's what you want). Just unset those variables.

ie unset ($_SESSION['whatever']);

chads2k2

Yeah just unset the variable. You don't need to destroy the whole session just the value?

unset($_SESSION['CART_ITEMS']);

Check my syntax. Pretty sure that's it. Or you could just re-write the session variable. Like:

$_SESSION["CART_ITEMS"] = "blank";

That would for sure erase the values and put that one in. I don't think that you could do:
$_SESSION["CART_ITEMS"] = "";

Just try a few things like that. Don't use session_destroy() unless you have to. :-D

Chad

grum

Thanks for your help guys.

The cart I'm using (found it free on hotscripts.com) uses session_register("list").

I still cant get it to work. I tried session_unregister("list") also with no luck. I tried just setting $list="". nothing works.

I think the problem is that because I'm using callback to overwrite the session variable. It just doesn't seem to know that the session exists.

the only way to do it I can think of to do it is to clear the session variable before it goes to the credit card entry page on the secure server. I was kinda hoping there was a way to do it after the trancation is succcessful.

kburger

I'm guessing your $SESSION array contains more than just the single variable "list". Have you tried doing a

print_r $_SESSION;

to see what's in it?