Help!!! sessions & multi arrays

[n_wattam]

Hi all,

I have this problem and its driving me around the bend. I cant work out at all whats going on.

	function session_create_guest() {
		$_SESSION['userinfo']['email_address'] = "guest";
		$_SESSION['userinfo']['userlevel'] = "0";
		$_SESSION['userinfo']['ip'] = "{$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']}";
		$_SESSION['userinfo']['session_time_start'] 		= time();
		$_SESSION['userinfo']['session_time_lastactive'] 	= time();
	}

I have this function above which i am using to store basic info for a user when logged in.

here is the problem:- i notice that if i use the varible $userinfo anywhere in my coding it automatically inserts the value into the session array????

eg

	$userinfo['email_address'] = "[e-mail]";

Why is this happening? i'm still new to sessions so could be my lack of knoledge

[bpat1434]

Are global variables turned on? I've never run into this, but the only thing I could suspect is global variables.....

[n_wattam]

yes it is very odd.. i've just checked and register_globals is "on"

[bpat1434]

Try turning register globals off. I'm not sure if that will 'fix' the problem, but register_globals (1) is deprecated as it's being phased out and (2) is a security concern 🙁 So it shouldn't be on 😉

[n_wattam]

that seems to of worked and fixed the problem.. Cheers for that... and what a strange error. :eek:

[bpat1434]

Okay, good. I'm not sure why that acted like that (I'm not hip to the register_globals stuff since I never use it) but I'm glad you got it fixed 🙂