sessions

Anon

Hello, i have an application and i want to change from cookies to sessions, for user authuntication.

1st file:

session_start();
session_register("count1");
global $count1;
$count1 = "aghges";

2nd file

session_start();

echo $_REQUEST["count1"] ;

As i have understood, the server sends a cookie to the client with the SID. So automatically the client should have access to the session's variables.

Am i wrong?

Why isn't it working?

slug58

with PHP you only register the variable after it has been populated with your final value you want to pass along to the next page.

example:
session_start();
$var = "hello there";
session_register("var");

hope this helps!!

vaggelis wrote:

Hello, i have an application and i want to change from cookies to sessions, for user authuntication.

1st file:

session_start();
session_register("count1");
global $count1;
$count1 = "aghges";

2nd file

session_start();

echo $_REQUEST["count1"] ;

As i have understood, the server sends a cookie to the client with the SID. So automatically the client should have access to the session's variables.

Am i wrong?

Why isn't it working?

Anon

ok, i did that too but it does not work.

I also opened the winnt\temp directory and no file exists there.

Anon

try this

file1

session_start();
$var = "hello there";
session_register("var");

file2

session_start();

echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['var'];

remember you need session_start(); at the top of all files and you cand write and read a session var on the same page

any use ?

Anon

Maybe $_SESSION should be used instead of $HTTP_SESSION_VARS.

sokam

$_SESSION['varname'] will do it, but it depends on your php.ini file. 🙂

Anon

What is hapening?

None of them works.

Should i change anything in my php ini file?

I am going to get crazy!

Is there maybe a problem because a have php installed on win2000?

Anon

It can't the problem because I run apache 4.2.1 under Apache 2.0.39 under Windows 2000. Sessions work perfectly here !

Always remember to set the value of a variable BEFORE registering it and don't forget that its name is case sensitive...
$SESSION["name"] != $SESSION["NAME"]

In what directory are written session files ? Is it a valid directory ?

In php.ini :
session.save_path = <session directory>

Anon

I had a invalid directory. thanks H.L.

But now something is still wrong.

I register a variable, but the outout file is writing only the value of the variable. How can it understand that this value points to the variable name i want? Shouldn't it display also the name of the variable? (not only tha value)

Exactly, how can i call this valy?