IE 7 and lost sessions

dcjones

Hi all,

I have a problem with IE 7 and lost session data. The strange thing is that it is only affecting one set of scripts, the rest of the site which also uses sessions work perfectly.

I have also read a lot of information on the net concerning IE 7 and lost sessions but there is so much reported concerning this subject that is very hard to get a resolution.

In my particuly case I have a script; SEE ATTACHED (signup.txt) whch calls a Smarty template, and after the user completes the form it writes the data to the table and then redirects to script 2, SEE ATTACHED thank.txt

Script 1 and script 2 work completly as designed in FireFox. If I include "print_r ($SESSION)" at the top of script 2 all the session vars are displayed. If however I ren the scrips using IE 7, no session variables are displays. I have also run the same script using IE 6 and again all works as designed to do so.

Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong when run with IE 7. Remember that all the other script in the site work perfectly.

dcjones

Hi all.

I have done some more testing trying to solve this problem.

If I run the script in IE7 it fails to pass the session vars. If I run the script again withour closing the browser, the script passes the session vars.

Any ideas.

rsmith

Why do you have the session_start() separated in it's own php statement? What happens if you get rid of the separation and just put:

<?php session_start();
 //rest of code
?>

dcjones

Hi and thanks for your reply.

I have tried

<?php session_start();
//rest of code
?>

and it is the same. It does not display any session vars. One think I have noticed is that if I run the script the first time, no session vars, but if I keep the browser window open and run the script for the second time the session vars are displayed.

Any ideas

rsmith

What about your session keep-alive time in php.ini? Does it work in IE6 without a problem?

dcjones

Hi there and again, many thanks for your time.

If I test in in IE6.x it work perfectly and the same in Firefox,

I only have this problem with IE7. I have even turned down the Security Level to low. I have read on the NET that others are havingthe same type of problem, but from what I can see no one has written a solution.

Again. many thanks.