[RESOLVED] PHP ver 5 and sessions

[Connie_Goss]

I have a site with some session variables. It works fine online under version 4, but now the same code has stopped working on my personal machine (which has php 5). I'm not sure but I think the local copy stopped working right after I upgraded to version 5. I don't seem to be able to access session variables created in one script from another script. Is there some big issue with ver 4 vs ver 5?😕

[Weedpacket]

No; have you checked your configuration?

[Connie_Goss]

I have glanced at my phpinfo but I'm very green at session programming, and don't really know what to look for.

[Weedpacket]

The bits in the section headed [Session].

Compare the settings there with those in the old configuration and note any differences.

[bradgrafelman]

Also turn on display_errors in php.ini and set error_reporting to E_ALL.

You might want to make sure that PHP is reading the php.ini file you think it is, too; make some change in the .ini file, restart your webserver, and do another phpinfo() to see if the output reflects your change. If it does, great; if it doesn't, then your first task should be getting PHP to read your configuration file.

[Connie_Goss]

Aha! Turning on the error reporting shows me all sorts of things I need to fix. The main problem was that I had moved the location of my website code, and the directory to save session data did not exist. Fixed! Thank you.