use of sessions causes hang

silly

I am trying some advice to use sessions. However when doing so it says it is contacting the server but hangs for a long time......then a message box comes that the page contained no data.

I have set the session.autostarte to 1.

Any ideas what could be doing this?

My code is a example code provided in the book SAMS teach yourself PHP on chapter10.

Any help will be appreciated.

planetsim

Since I do not have the Sams book could you please show us the code?

silly

here are the two different pages

<?php
session_start();
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Listing 10.2 Storing variables in a session</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php

echo session_id();

$SESSION1="Sonic Screwdriver";
$SESSION2="HAL 2000";
echo "The products have been registered.";
?>
</body>
</html>

<?php
session_start();
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Listing 10.3 Accessing stored session variables</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "Your chosen products are:";
echo "<ul><li>$SESSION1 <li>$SESSION2\n</ul>\n";
?>
</body>
</html>

chris_davies

I know exactly how you feel m8.
I also have the Sams php, mysql and apache all in one book. Some stuff in it is great, anything to do with sessions in this book is rubbish. I can't get any of it to work. putting session_start() as the first item on the page seems to work ok, but if I try t o set, for example, $SESSION['username']= $POST['$username']; I get errors sprouting up everywhere on the page stating something like:

undefined function session() can't find file or document in c\php\includes.

There is obviously something that should be set somewhere (possibly in the php.ini file) which the book has NOT covered. So where I get this information, I don't know. Also, if there has to be something set in the php.ini file, how on earth does I set that when I'm not running my own server, but use a webhost?

Any sensible answer would be warmly welcomed. And please, no smart alec gloating type answers about searching and reading the manual. I for one, wouldn't submit a post/request for help, unless I had tried everything I could possibly think of to solve the problem.

I find too many people these days dont want to help, but just make snyde comments to newbies about reading the faffing manual, which is NOT written for the new programmer but only for the very experienced technical user.