--enable-track-vars for session tracking

Anon

Ok... I love PHP and think most everything about it is better than ASP. Except Session handling... or so it seems. ASP has very simple add/access functions for session variables that are tracked across pages with out effort.

No matter what I seem to do I cannot get different pages to access my session variables. So I found out about the "--enable-track-vars" however it says you need to compile it into the program. Yet you don't compile for Win installations and I cannot find any help on getting it enabled or even to find out if it already is.

Could someone please lend a frustrated developer a hand?

andrin

First:

Look in your phpinfo() file and see if sessions are enabled (search for "Session Support").

Second:

Create a page (page1.php) and put in:
session_start();
$_SESSION["myVar"] = "Testing";

Create another page (page2.php) and put in:
echo $_SESSION["myVar"];

If page2.php echos "Testing" then it´s alriht :-) If not... Then I can´t think of anything right now.

I assume you have PHP 4.1.2.

Good luck
/Andrin

Anon

Track_vars is always on .... also on win distro's.

I DID hear about some serious session bugs in PHP 4.1.2 on windows systems .... it seems to me your problems are related to this (and mine :-((((:

read
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16043

and
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16102

I don't understand that this isn't reported by PHP.net ..... I just found oot after serious yelling and screaming last weekend .... everything session based stopped working after I upgraded from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2.

$_SESSION went dead so to speak.

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