session problem

[wuno]

Hi:

I have a question about php session. There is a piece of code as the following:
<?
session_start();
$status = 'student';
$SESSION['status'] = $status;
echo $SESSION['status'];
echo '<br>';
$status = '';
echo $_SESSION['status'];
?>

I assumed that the output should be:
student
student

But. it wasn't.

Apparently, the second $_SESSION['status'] has been reset to an empty string.

Why would that happen?

[Kudose]

Do you have register_globals turned on? That's all I can think off ... the code looks fine.

[wuno]

ini_get('register_globals') shows 1. Does the register_globals have some thing to do with the problem I am having?

Norman

[Kudose]

I could be wrong, but since you are using register_globals, I believe that it is making the variables one in the same.

i.e.

<?php
  session_start();
  //string variable set
  echo $status = 'Active';
  //session variable set
  $_SESSION['status'] = $status;
  //register_globals takes over making $status the same as the $_SESSION
  $status = '';
  //$status was just erased, which erases $_SESSION because they were linked
  echo $_SESSION['status'];
  //returns nothing
?>