ID: 20449 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: josh at zebotech dot com -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: Session related Operating System: redhat 7.3 PHP Version: 4.4.0-dev New Comment:
This should be fixed in PHP 4.3.2, so please give it a try. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-02 14:44:35] radek at pinkbike dot com I also have seen behaviour of missing session data. I have detected this in the custom shopping cart I have written. Every 20 or 30 orders we get a "blank" order. This blank order is a result of the session cart is not picked up on the last stage of the purchase process. I went through my code a million times to try to figure out how I could of caused this but reading this bug report I starting to think it maybe a result of php session/serialization. Like the other person with the shopping cart stated, who knows how many users don't even make it to the last step and their cart disappears. I store associative arrays in the session I run on a dual CPU intel box The site is relatively high load - 3 million hits a day I have not been able to reproduce the problem myself It has been happening regularly since January when i put up the software - it happens on a few versions of php since Jan 2003 What are options here? Any documentation, warnings about what not to store in php sessions? Should I be writting my own handler/serializer? here are the box details Apache/1.3.26 PHP Version 4.3.1 System Linux superlight 2.4.20-xfs #2 SMP Mon Apr 7 21:06:32 CDT 2003 i686 Build Date May 1 2003 00:21:10 Configure Command './configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--with-openssl' '--with-zlib' '--with-mcrypt' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-gd' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-curl=/usr/local' '--enable-exif' Server API Apache Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path /usr/local/lib/php.ini PHP API 20020918 PHP Extension 20020429 Zend Extension 20021010 Debug Build no Thread Safety disabled Registered PHP Streams php, http, ftp, https, ftps, compress.zlib ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-24 01:15:44] brian dot diekelman at andrews dot af dot mil I just upgraded from snaps.php.net yesterday and am still experiencing this bug. I am running a very simple authentication script at the beginning of every page to check a generic $_SESSION['user'] to see if there is an active session. If there is not it prompts for login. The session only holds the user name and password. Now I have heard a lot of people in my organization complaining that they'll be browsing the site and it will randomly prompt for login. I have also experienced this myself. I have heard a couple people in this bug thread attribute losing the session to php's handing of arrays, which very well may be true but in my case I am losing sessions on a lot more basic level. System: ---------- Win2K SP2 Apache 2.0.45 PHP 4.3.x (downloaded from snaps yesterday) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-21 08:30:40] stefandekonink at xs4all dot nl Currently I have the same session problem. As the page in a frameset get a POST (login user/pass) the page gets the content. The next page presented in this frame is to fill in content, after posting, it goes again thru the login procedure. After the login the SessionID is lost even if a GET var is specified. This behavior occurs on IE6.0.2600 Win2K-SP2, Mozilla Firebird is working without this annoing behavior. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-18 11:14:43] dave at flitsservice dot nl I would like to report that I resolved my problem described earlier here. There is a bug in Windows 2000 and is resolved bij one of the available service packs (I thought service pack 3). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-09 00:18:19] php dot bugs dot krishaven at spamgourmet dot com My session problems appear to all be caused by the fact that $array1=$array2 doesn't do a "deep copy" as described in bugs: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=8130 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=21288 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=20993 Personally, I don't think that the previous dismissal of the problem with "This will not be fixed anytime soon. It is a deep seated problem in the implementation and fixing it would cause speed problems and numerous other problems," or considering it a documentation problem are appropriate responses. I guess I was lucky that this was causing an apache segfault, or who knows how much data this could have corrupted? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/20449 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20449&edit=1
