PHP Session Issue with Flash

[maxfarago]

Hi all, this is my first post here, I'm having a Flash/PHP issue with the _session array. I'm fairly new to PHP, so be gentle 🙂

If you go here and click on UPLOAD in the top right, first you will be prompted for an email, then for an upload.

When you click the MOVE ON button in the first prompt, it calls this php code:

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['emailAddr'] = $_POST['emailAddr'];
?>

Then after the file is uploaded, this PHP script is called (I've omitted the upload code):

<?php
session_start();

$subject = "blah";
$message = "Customer Email: ".$_SESSION['emailAddr'];
$to = "my email";
mail( $to, $subject, $message ) or print "Could not send mail";
?>

The problem I'm having is that the second script is not seeing the _session variable, so somehow in between the two scripts, the session is getting destroyed. Does anyone know why? Any help is greatly appreciated!

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[stolzyboy]

have you tried echoing out $_POST['emailAddr']; to ensure it is POSTing correctly, if it can't get the POST variable, the SESSION variable will obviously not be populated

[maxfarago]

I did, actually. I cut the debug out so it would be clearer to show here, but i actually use the mail command in the first script to send me the input as a _session variable, so it is actually being stored. But when I check to see if the var isset in the second script, it says its not.

[maxfarago]

I think someone here just tried it and left this in the email:

alfonse@tweeder

And SOMEHOW it was stored because it came through in the second email after this person uploaded "asdf.txt". I don't know who this was or what they did, but whoever it was, can you PLEASE tell me what you did?

[stolzyboy]

that was me that did it

[maxfarago]

I'm still trying to figure out how that one person's entry, "alfonse@tweeder", got through when noone elses has. I'll put out my whole code:

Here's the first script:

<?php
	session_start();
	$_SESSION['emailAddr'] = $_POST['emailAddr'];
	$to = "my email";
	$subject = "tester";
	$message = "Customer Email: ".$_SESSION['emailAddr'];
	mail( $to, $subject, $message ) or print "Could not send mail";
?>

Then the second script:

<?php
	session_start();
	$source = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
	$target = "uploadedFiles/".$_FILES['Filedata']['name'];
	move_uploaded_file($source, $target);
	$subject = "SFP: A new file has been UPLOADED";
	$message = "A new file, ".$_FILES['Filedata']['name']." , has been uploaded. \n\n";
	$message .= "Download: http://www.santafeprinting.com/".$target."\n\n";
	if (isset($_SESSION['emailAddr']))
	{
		$message .= "Customer Email: ".$_SESSION['emailAddr'];
	}
	else
	{
		$message .= "EMAIL IS NOT SET IN PHP SESSION!";
	}
	$to = "my email";
	mail( $to, $subject, $message ) or print "Could not send mail";
?>

Any ideas? I'm sorry to be so persistent about this, but I can't figure out what's going on. Could you try it again, stolzy, to see if it works again?

[stolzyboy]

that was ME that did the alfonse@tweeder and the asdf.txt file, i just followed the directions, the only thing i DID do different is that, i cancelled my upload cuz i didn't have a file, so i went out and created a file and went to upload again, i can do two tests for you, i'll do onealfonse and twoalfonse, let me know if the come thru

[stolzyboy]

i did it a few times, the first couple didn't work as there wasn't any contents in the file, so stuff in the file and it worked fine on the user end, i didn't do anything special, followed the steps

[maxfarago]

It's crazy, but nobody's emails are going through but yours. Both onealfonse and twoalfonse did. Here's what i got:

First email:
Customer Email: [e-mail]

Second email:
Customer Email: [e-mail]

Third email:
A new file, twoalfonse.txt , has been uploaded.

Download: http://www.santafeprinting.com/uploadedFiles/twoalfonse.txt

Customer Email: [e-mail]

Fourth email:
Customer Email: [e-mail]

Fifth email:
A new file, onealfonse.txt , has been uploaded.

Download: http://www.santafeprinting.com/uploadedFiles/onealfonse.txt

Customer Email: [e-mail]

So somehow, it's working for you but not anybody else... that makes absolutely no sense. I just tried it and it told me it wasnt set. What makes you different?

[stolzyboy]

i'm not sure... are you local to the machine? are you accessing it the same way?

[maxfarago]

I would think maybe its a local thing, except that I've tried it with a bunch of other people and only your email has gone through. A bunch of people on this forum I think have tried to do it too, but yours is the only one that saved the email...

[stolzyboy]

that may be true, however,that doesn't make any sense at all :/

[maxfarago]

I know... I was actually thinking this was a Flash problem until yours worked. Could there be some setting in my php.ini file? How could this possibly be a user issue... I've never had a problem like this. But its just code, there has to be a reason.

So just so I understand, you did this:
click on upload > enter email address in box > click MOVE ON > click UPLOAD button > choose file in dialog box

After you choose the file, the upload automaticaly starts and when its done, it takes you to the screen that says you will get a confirmation email. Is that all correct?

[stolzyboy]

yes, that is correct, and no, there shouldn't be anything in PHP that is user specific for something like that.