Come to think of it, I think I had this problem once or twice whilst tinkering around, I assumed it was something to do with my local dev server.
Good job on discovering the source of your session woes. On 30 November 2010 21:44, amfriedman <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, after about a day of mucking around in the core, I solved > the problem. It is just a little "gotcha" with the way Cake loads > start_session(), or so it seems. > > I've reproduced the bug with a clean copy of Cake 1.3.6. The reason > why the Session helper fails is only if you have browser output (like > debug output) in the beforeFilter() function of AppController or > anywhere sooner in the dispatching process. > > To test, just type some pr() statement in > AppController::beforeFilter(), and then try to reproduce my original > problem above, and you'll see that the Session helper fails. BUT, if > you put something like $this->Session->check('blah') (even if 'blah' > is a nonexistent session key) BEFORE your pr() statement in > beforeFilter(), then the Session helper succeeds. > > I believe the reason is because session_start() is not called early > enough in the application, but seems to be called on the first > instance of using the Session component (or helper), and if headers > have already been sent to the browser, session_start() fails. (Though > it is failing silently with my PHP error reporting set to ALL.) > > Yuck! I'm glad I solved it though. I've reported issue in Lighthouse. > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others > with their CakePHP related questions. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<cake-php%[email protected]>For > more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en > -- Kind Regards Stephen @ NinjaCoderMonkey www.ninjacodermonkey.co.uk Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
