lost a session when connect to a different DB?

jasondavis

On my site In a header file I use something like below

<? if(!isset($_SESSION['auto_id'])){?>
<li class="active_menu"><a href="http://www.site.com/">Home</a></li>
<? } else {?>
<li class="active_menu"><a href="?p=home">Home</a></li>
<? } ?>

this works on my whole site where I am connected to my member DB but as soon as I go into a folder where I connect to a different DB , this sessions is not showing up on these pages, any idea why? and how to resolve

jasondavis

after more test it seems it isnt from connecting to a different DB but going outside of my root folder

SO sessions is active in any file in public_html/test.php but not active in public_html/test/test.php

halojoy

my experience from sessions
is that there is 2 things that removes session variables:
1. close browser
2. script unset value or destroy session

There might be a session lifetime value in php.ini
that would delete very old session files.
But this is sure not so in your case.

Otherwise, I can not understand other, than that SESSION value still exists
I can not remember I ever seen anything else.
... well, I have at times, deleted session-files from my session-folder
not to need to close my browser, when doing some code testings

Regards 🙂

jasondavis

yeah the thing is the session is not destroyed, I can go back to the rest of my site and it will work fine again