"Michael R. Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've posted several times mentioning that I am completely unable > to cause sessions to persist. Over the intervening time, I have > replicated this problem to a different machine, with the same > results. Here's a recap of the problem. > > I am not using cookies. Sessions are automatically created (and > changing that makes no difference) The relevant session variables > (copied from phpinfo) are: > Session Support enabled > session.auto_start On <- hence no session_start > session.name PHPSESSID > session.use_cookies Off <- no cookies > session.use_trans_sid On > > Environment is FreeBSD4.8. phpinfo for apache says: > Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.28 PHP/4.3.4 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.6d > > > Here is a cut/paste of the borwser screen for the code below: > > Stage:0 SessionID: 04ace04b1fe0bc81d2cd678c9bab1619 > _____ [Submit] > Stage:1 SessionID: 04ace04b1fe0bc81d2cd678c9bab1619 Request: Array ( ) > > So I type "foo" into the box and hit submit. And the session variable > is NOT preserved: > > Stage:0 SessionID: 55c70989b7279d6a18edfd81b28d67a6 > foo___ [Submit] > Stage:1 SessionID: 55c70989b7279d6a18edfd81b28d67a6 Request: Array [PHPSESSID] => 04ace04b1fe0bc81d2cd678c9bab1619 [field] => foo ) > > The session directory IS writable and I see the expected information > being written there: > -rw------- 1 nobody wheel 10 May 21 13:35 sess_04ace04b1fe0bc81d2cd678c9bab1619 > -rw------- 1 nobody wheel 10 May 21 13:38 sess_55c70989b7279d6a18edfd81b28d67a6 > > Apache runs as user "nobody" on this server. Both session files contain: > stage|i:1; > but the files never seem to be being read back! > > Help!? > > > Here's the entire php code I'm testing with: > > <? > if (!isset($_SESSION['stage'])) { > $_SESSION['stage'] = 0; > } > if (!isset($_POST['field'])) { $_POST['field'] = ""; } > ?> > <html> > <head><title>PHP Test page</title></head> > <body> > <? > echo "Stage:"; echo $_SESSION['stage']; > echo " SessionID: "; echo session_id(); > $_SESSION['stage'] = 1; > ?> > <form method="post" action="xxx.php"> > <input type="text" maxlength="7" size="7" name="field" value="<?echo $_POST['field']?>"> > <input type="submit" value="Submit"> > </form> > <? > echo "Stage:"; echo $_SESSION['stage']; echo " "; > echo " SessionID: "; echo session_id(); echo " "; > echo " Request: "; print_r($_REQUEST); > ?> > </body> </html>
As far as I remember session.use_trans_sid does NOT work with forms (action attribute). Have you tried appending it manually to the action?: <form method="post" action="xxx.php<?= SID; ?>"> Regards, Torsten -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
