ID: 37926
Comment by: mjwindsorREMOVE at CAPShotmail dot com
Reported By: thomas at ecommerce dot com
Status: Open
Bug Type: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 5.x
New Comment:
I do not agree that this is a documentation problem, or that describing
it as expected behaviour is a suitable response. If PHP is a robust
language, it cannot have unexpected and obscure rules applied at
random. $_SESSION should just be an array that persists between page
requests, providing session_start() has been called: that is what
everyone expects and that is how it is used.
In every other case, $new_array = $existing_array; is a value
assignment and simply copies one array to another and no alteration is
made or should be expected to $existing_array or its properties.
I have spent several days trying to work out why my sessions werent
working as I expected and taken up the time of several helpful posters
in various fora. I finally tracked the problem down to this issue and
some code included in every page of a widely used forum; an otherwise
robust and secure open source product. I seriously doubt that a note in
the documentation would have saved me much of this work and none of the
work needed to get around the issue, once it was identified. This will
apply equally to all those who fall foul of this problem you need to
know what the problem is before searches will turn up documentation.
Mike
Previous Comments:
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[2006-07-06 11:18:36] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We welcome a patch from you.
I however don't see the need to document it, will only add
confusion.
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[2006-07-06 10:25:55] thomas at ecommerce dot com
Updated information that this is general
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[2006-07-06 10:20:27] thomas at ecommerce dot com
Any status update on this bug??? Not hard to add in documentation
-.-
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[2006-06-30 09:54:15] thomas at ecommerce dot com
So, does this get fixed at least in the documentation? :)
I still don't understand why this can't get fixed, a lot of user crys
because of the 'magic feature' of the session and such problems.
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[2006-06-28 13:35:11] thomas at ecommerce dot com
Ok, but still, there is nothing in the documentation that explain this
problem or show it, how to avoid it.
Moved to Documentation problem
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