[RESOLVED] Sessions variables aren't registered???

bodzan

Here is the deal:
I work on a project where my client has php set up as Windows CGI/FastCGI server API - (Windows 2000 machine I think), with php 4.3.1. <- if this is not enough data ask me and I'll try to find out more about this.

I have similar developing machine home (except, I have Apache 2 Handler server API) and my code works perfectly and on several different machines as well (mostly Linux). So, basically I figure my code works.

But it doesn't on this machine. I am trying to use session variables, but it refuses! When I try to use session variable I have set on previous page it will not transfer to the new one and the code on the new page will not see it.

What might be the problem here? My code has a session_start() on every page, and I even tried to set session.save_path to a new value although it is set correctly (as I can see with phpinfo()😉, but no go...

I am in trouble since I have to finish this project by the end of the week!

Please help!

P.S. Non-related issue - I have set a header() function to return me to the page with info variable set to contain a whole sentence, but it prints on receiving page only the first portion - first word...

bradgrafelman

Try enabling the session.use_cookies directive.

Once you do that, echo [man]session_id/man on both pages - you should have the same session ID both times; do you?

Also... if doing header() redirections right after you set session data, you might want to call [man]session_write_close/man before the header() redirect - this helps to ensure that the current PHP process has enough time to write to and close the session file before the next process tries to open it and access the session data.

bodzan

bradgrafelman
I found out what is wrong with the code thanks to you...

First I found session.use_cookies directive in phpinfo(); page and it is enabled...

And then when I wanted to check whether session_id() returns the same value on different pages and I noticed that it didn't! I messed around with my code and now it works...

Thank you big time Brad!
I was poking around the problem and wasn't able to find it before you asked me one simple thing that I didn't check... 😃