Hi,
It sounds like you are experiencing a similar problem to one I had. It seems
there are some problems with setting cookies when using IIS, and as I understand it
one of the ways that sessions work is by storing the data in a cookie on the clients
machine. On the page at www.php.net it suggests appending the session id to the url,
go here to look at that http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php,
An example of this would be;
"<?php
if (!session_is_registered('count')) {
session_register('count');
$count = 1;
}
else {
$count++;
}
?>
Hello visitor, you have seen this page <?php echo $count; ?> times.<p>;
<?php
# the <?php echo SID?> (<?=SID?> can be used if short tag is enabled)
# is necessary to preserve the session id
# in the case that the user has disabled cookies
?>
To continue, <A HREF="nextpage.php?<?php echo SID?>">click here</A>"
on the notes at the bottom someone said this, sounds like a similar problem,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
01-Apr-2002 04:30
Using PHP 4.1.2 on IIS 5.0, Win2k, haven't migrated app yet to Linux
(later!)
Managed to eventually get the sessions to work as follows.
In the php.ini, session.auto_start = 1
Then without a session_start();
$xvar = "something" ;
Use
session_register("xvar");
then u CAN retrieve from a later page using the new way:
$var = $_SESSION["xvar"] ;
also without session_start();
even doing a var_dump($_SESSION); seems to work at least some of the time!
The odd thing is that storing vars using the new way:
$_SESSION["xvar"] = "something";
will save only for the CURRENT page, this gets lost when moving on to the
next page!
best regards
Mike"
Hope this helps with your problem,
Steve.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfram Kriesing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: [PHP] help please - strange session behaviour on IIS with php4.1.2
> i've written a simple script, which tests the session behaviour on the IIS,
> since it didnt seem to work
> the following script should increase the session-var $testVar and display it
> but it always stays at the same value
> can someone explain that? is that a bug?
>
> also if i would increase $_SESSION['testVar'] it doesnt work.
>
> i have been looking at the server and the session-file is also updated, but
> not with the new values, only the timestamp is updated, it seems
>
> session_start();
> // make the session variable globally available
> // we have register_globals = Off
> $testVar = &$_SESSION['testVar'];
>
> // init testVar to 1 or increase it
> if( !isset($testVar) )
> {
> print 'set testVar to 1<br>';
> $testVar = 1;
> }
> else
> {
> print 'increase<br>';
> $testVar++;
> }
>
> // i can put session_register before
> // or after the 'if' it always happens the same
> session_register('testVar');
>
> print $testVar;
>
>
> the environment:
> - IIS-Server5.0, WIN2k
> - PHP4.1.2
> - session.auto_start = 0
> - register_globals = Off
>
> i am using the recommended-php.ini, that's why register_globals is off
>
> thanks for help
> --
> Wolfram
>
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