PHP version session problems

rulian

I've got a site completed on Php5 and apache on my developing machine and it works well. However, i have php5 installed on my machine.

I JUST got which server the file will be on assigned to me, and the server is running PHP 4.4.1

I cant upgrade the php version on the server, so I now must convert my sessions form php5 to php 4.

my site is dependent on session variables to keep the user logged in, without it the user is redirected to a login page.

So whey I got the site and login the first page works as usual, but when you click any othe rpage i get redirected to the login page.

So I know its a session problem because I keep trying to echo my sess vars and they are coming up blank.

in my original code I establish variables as such
session_start();

$_SESSION['myvariable'] = $myvariable

and retrieving them using the $myvar = $_SESSION['myvar'];

now, i was under the impression PHP 4.4.1 would be able to handle the same way. However, that doesnt seem to be the case.

So i'm trying to revert back the sessions to PHP 4, using session_register("myvar")

how would you set and recall session variables in php4 or am I doing something wrong?

HP400

That should work as their on no differences between 5 and 4 really in session managment. Note that you are trying to retrieve the variable through $SESSION['myvar'] when above you set the variable $SESSION['myvariable']. I doubt thats what you named them but hey just pointing that out. As long as session_start() is at the top of each page you should be ok.

samudasu

This probably has someting to do with the php configuration. You might want to compare php.ini between the two servers paying particular attention to the session values. You might also want to call phpinfo() and look at the values and configuration line. Make sure someone didn't say --disable-all. Believe it or not, that was posted just the other day and the user couldn't figure out why sessions weren't working.

rulian

Actually, i found out the problem which makes it a thousand times more confusing.

I'm not losing all of my session variables, I'm losing JUST ONE!
I renamed the both post and get codes to another variable name and the site worked perfectly. I dunno if thats a glitch cause my session varname was client, but now its all good thanks yall