session problem in php4.0

Anon

Hi everyone.
I'm using php4.0 runing under win98 and the session functions don't work i don't know why.
I'm writing a test script called teste.php

<?php
session_start();
$my_session_variable = "some value";
session_register( "my_session_variable");
?>

When i start IE5.5 browser to run the script appears a error message :
"The page cannot be displayed"
what could go wrong is it php.ini not configured correctly or is it the browser.
Here is a sample of my php.ini.
[Session]
session.save_handler = files ; handler used to store/retrieve data
session.save_path = /tmp ; argument passed to save_handler
; in the case of files, this is the
; path where data files are stored
session.use_cookies = 1 ; whether to use cookies
session.name = PHPSESSID

; name of the session
; is used as cookie name
session.auto_start = 0 ; initialize session on request startup
session.cookie_lifetime = 0 ; lifetime in seconds of cookie
; or if 0, until browser is restarted
session.cookie_path = / ; the path the cookie is valid for
session.cookie_domain = ; the domain the cookie is valid for
session.serialize_handler = php ; handler used to serialize data
; php is the standard serializer of PHP
session.gc_probability = 1 ; procentual probability that the
; 'garbage collection' process is started
; on every session initialization
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 ; after this number of seconds, stored
; data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the gc process
session.referer_check = 0 ; check HTTP Referer to invalidate
; externally stored URLs containing ids
session.entropy_length = 0 ; how many bytes to read from the file
session.entropy_file = ; specified here to create the session id
; session.entropy_length = 16
; session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom
session.cache_limiter = nocache ; set to {nocache,private,public} to
; determine HTTP caching aspects
session.cache_expire = 180 ; document expires after n minutes

Thanks a lot.

Anon

The page can't be displayed because the PHP code isn't outputting anything to the document. So, IE is seeing this as an empty document, and in the browser's context it is. Try echoing the variable's value, too, and I think you'll see it work.

Anon

This line in your php.ini;

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session.save_path = /tmp

but don't found directory "/tmp" on Win98.
change this line same below and try again.

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session.save_path = c:\your_temp_dir

P.S.: Directory "c:\your_temp_dir" is has write access.

Ruben wrote:

Hi everyone.
I'm using php4.0 runing under win98 and the session functions don't work i don't know why.
I'm writing a test script called teste.php

<?php
session_start();
$my_session_variable = "some value";
session_register( "my_session_variable");
?>