Have you tried using $_SESSION['bgcolor'] = "bleh"
It might work... who knows...
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From: "dan radom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] am i just a session tracking idiot?
> what's weird is that if i set session.save_handler = mm, i obviously don't
get the file error, but it still won't work.
>
> here's another example of what i've tried...
>
> mars:~/apache/htdocs/test.radom.org$ cat test.php
> <?
> // create a new session
> session_start();
>
> // register a session-variable
> session_register("bgcolor");
>
> // Assign a value to the session-variable
> $bgcolor = "#8080ff";
> ?>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Session Example #1</title>
> </head>
>
> <body bgcolor="<?=$bgcolor?>" text="#000000" link="#000000"
vlink="#000000" alink="#000000">
>
> Welcome to a session-enabled page! The background color on the next page
will be set to a stylish blue.<p>
> <a href = "test2.php">Go to another session-enabled page</a>.
> </body>
> </html>
>
> and
>
> mars:~/apache/htdocs/test.radom.org$ cat test2.php
> <?
> // Resume session created in Listing 1-2
> session_start();
> ?>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Session Example #1</title>
> </head>
>
> <body bgcolor="<?=$bgcolor?>" text="#000000" link="#808040"
vlink="#606060" alink="#808000">
>
> <?
> // Retrieve SID from cookie.
> print "Your SID is $PHPSESSID <br>";
>
> // Display the value of the $bgcolor variable.
> print "The persistent background color is: $bgcolor.";
> ?>
>
>
> argggh!
>
>
> * dan radom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I've just tried that. /foo is owned by nobody and is mode 777. there's
135M available on that partition.
> >
> > * Shane Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > This may sound silly - but is there enough free disk space on whatever
> > > partition /tmp is mounted on?
> > >
> > > Alternatively, as a workaround, you could create a new directory and
give the
> > > web server user permission to write to it and tell PHP to save
sessions
> > > there. (this is actually better from a security standpoint as well;
less
> > > chance of session hijacking).
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > - --
> > > Shane
> > > www.shanewright.co.uk
> > > Public Key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thursday 06 June 2002 6:31 pm, dan radom wrote:
> > > > I can't seem to get session tracking to work to save my life. The
end
> > > > result I'm after is to store the value of the single column returned
from
> > > > this query .. SELECT user_id from users WHERE user_name =
'$user_name' AND
> > > > user_password = '$user_password' .. for use throughout the site.
The
> > > > current error I'm getting is "Warning: Failed to write session data
> > > > (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path
is
> > > > correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0" which is very strange, as
> > > > session.save_path is set to /tmp, and tmp is "drwxrwxrwt 2 root
> > > > root". The code is listed below. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > dan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > <?
> > > >
> > > > // if ($user_name) {
> > > > // class 'new uid' { var $row->user_id; };
> > > > // start_session();
> > > > // $abqSession = new abqnl;
> > > > // $abqSession->user_id = $uid;
> > > > // session_register("abqSession");
> > > > // }
> > > >
> > > > if ($user_name) {
> > > > session_id($_GET['user_id']);
> > > > session_start();
> > > > $foo="$row->user_id";
> > > > $_SESSION["uid"] = $foo;
> > > > echo "$foo";
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > include '/storage/apache/htdocs/test.radom.org/.siteconf.php';
> > > >
> > > > echo "<br><br>";
> > > >
> > > > if (!$user_name) {
> > > >
> > > > echo "<center>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "<table cellspacing=10>";
> > > > echo "<tr>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "<form method=post action=\"login.php\">";
> > > >
> > > > echo "<td align=left>";
> > > > echo "user name";
> > > > echo "</td>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "<td align=left>";
> > > > echo "<input size=12 name=\"user_name\">";
> > > > echo "</td>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "</tr>";
> > > > echo "<tr>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "<td align=left>";
> > > > echo "password";
> > > > echo "</td>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "<td align=left>";
> > > > echo "<input type=\"password\" size=12 name=\"user_password\">";
> > > > echo "</td>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "</tr>";
> > > > echo "<tr>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "<td>";
> > > > echo "</td>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "<td align=left>";
> > > > echo "<center>";
> > > > echo "<input type = \"submit\" value=\"submit\">";
> > > > echo "</center>";
> > > > echo "</td>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "</form>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "</tr>";
> > > > echo "</table>";
> > > >
> > > > echo "</center>";
> > > >
> > > > exit;
> > > >
> > > > } else
> > > >
> > > > $result = pg_exec ($database, "SELECT user_id from users WHERE
user_name
> > > > = '$user_name' AND user_password = '$user_password'");
> > > >
> > > > if (!$result) {
> > > > echo "query died\n";
> > > > exit;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > if (pg_num_rows($result) == 0) {
> > > > echo "<center>you have entered an invalid user name and password
> > > > combination. please try again. new users may create an account
from the
> > > > sign up link above.</center>"; exit;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > for ($i = pg_num_rows($result) - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) {
> > > > if(!($row = pg_fetch_object($result)))
> > > > continue;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > echo "your user_id is ";
> > > >
> > > > pg_close($database);
> > > >
> > > > ?>
> > > > </body>
> > > > </html>
> > >
> > > - --
> > > Shane
> > > www.shanewright.co.uk
> > > Public Key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc
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