Sessions. got a better idea?

Anon

OK, I'm running into real problems now. can anyone help me out please? as I have a deadline (as I'm sure we all do!)

Anyway, I am trying to make use of sessions under PHP4. I have 3 files: 1.phtml, 2.phtml and 3.phtml (Code here).

When I place these on my web server and view them useing IE 5.5 there are no problems. However, if I use IE4, or Netscape on Windows or Linux the session variables assigned in 2.phtml do not show up in 3.phtml.

Help please. here's the files:

1.phtml

<HEAD>
	<TITLE>
		Test
	</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM NAME="frmName" METHOD="get" ACTION="2.phtml">
	<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="usrname">
	<BR>
	<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="usrpassword">
	<BR>
	<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="btnSubmit">
</FORM>
</BODY>

2.phtml

<?
session_start();

if (!$usrname) {
	header("Location: 1.phtml");
	session_destroy();
	exit();
} 

$user = $usrname;
$pass = $usrpassword;

session_register("user");
session_register("pass");

<HEAD>
	<TITLE>
		Test 2
	</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>
	Thanks, click <A HREF="3.phtml">here</A> to move on.
</BODY>

3.phtml

<?
session_start();
?>

<HEAD>
	<TITLE>
		Test 3
	</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<P>
	Username (user): <? echo($user) ?>
<P>
	Password (pass): <? echo($pass) ?>
</BODY>

Anon

Do you have cookies turned off in NS? There is a way
to pass the session id via the url if needed.

Anon

Yes cookies are enabled. There is nothing at the user end to prevent this from working

Kirk Parker wrote:

Do you have cookies turned off in NS? There is a way
to pass the session id via the url if needed.

Anon

Your code not only looks right to me, it works just fine on my Linux system with Netscape 4.75, Konqueror, and BrowseX. I would look in three areas for possible problems:

php.ini, especially the session.cookie_path and session.cookie_domain settings. The former should be / and the latter should be empty.
corrupted cookie file in Netscape (a chronic problem). Delete ~/.netscape/cookies and see if the problem goes away.
your Apache configuration, particularly UseCanonicalName. Be sure you are not inadvertently switching domains between your PHP pages.