Is register_globals set to 'on' in php.ini? It needs to be for this coding style to work.
Kirk > -----Original Message----- > From: Alastair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] problem reading sessions > > > > I have just recently set up PHP on my Win2K laptop and I have > just found out > that I can't read sessions. As far as I can tell the session > file is being > created, but PHP doesn't seem to be able to get any data into it. > > Here is what the session file looks like: > !sess_user|!blah| > > The two PHP files look like this: > > test_session1.php > <? > $blah = "good"; > session_start(); > session_register("blah"); > ?> > > > test_session2.php > <? > session_start(); > echo session_is_registered("blah") . "<br>"; > echo session_encode(). "<br>"; > echo isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS) . "<br>"; > echo sizeof($HTTP_SESSION_VARS) . "<br>"; > > echo $blah; > ?> > > For the second PHP page the ouput I get is: > - true for the 'session is registered' function > - the string that is found in the session file (listed above) > - true for the 'isset' function > - size of zero > - The warning: 'Warning: Undefined variable: blah ' > > Does anybody know why I would not be able to read these variables? > > thanks, > alastair -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
