Re: [PHP] Newbie - Can't get sessions to work

[Shaun Campbell]

I've tried the suggested code changes and no difference :(  I just don't
think sessions are working for me at all.

I said in my original posting that the second page was creating an empty
file in my session.save_path directory as though the second page has no
reference to the first one.

In my save_path directory I have the following files:

sess_8e603c46412d9c4dd3fa6bf3d98c100f0 KB File23/10/2003 10:37
sess_f548763ea84f7d812539720142ac6efe1 KB File23/10/2003 10:37

The top one presumably created by page 2 is empty and the bottom one
contains

foo|s:5:Hello;bar|s:5:World;

I don't know how sessions work in php and whether they use cookies or not
but it seems to me that the session_start() on page 2 is creating a new
session instead of referring to the current one.

Jason how do I check for those settings? I see nothing in php.ini that
refers to transparent sessions and I believe my browser is accepting
cookies.  Could it be an Apache configuration issue?  I thought sessions
were maintained on the server somehow.

Thanks

Shaun






Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 22:08, Shaun Campbell wrote:
  I've got a problem getting sessions to work and I wondered if anyone
could
  offer any advice.
 
  The example I am using is to get one page to set variables in a session
and
  then use another page to retrieve them.  I am using 4.3.4RC2 and prior
to
  that 4.3..3 on Win2k with IE6 and Apache 1.3.22.

 
  The code is:

 [snip]

 Code looks OK.

 One explanation: you have not enabled transparent sessions, and your
browser
 is not accepting cookies.

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Re: [PHP] Newbie - Can't get sessions to work

[Shaun Campbell]

That's it. Setting use_trans_sid to 1 got sessions working.  I'm now getting
PHPSESSID=7398a182a64f0b2603e369812e130727 appended to the end of the
page2.php URL and only one session file in my temp directory.

One final question. In the php.ini file it says that

Use of trans sid may risk your users security.
; Use this option with caution.

If you don't use this option because of the security impications how else
should you get sessions working?

Thanks

Shaun

PS Marek I'd forgotten but I'd got cookies working yesterday using the code
you suggested.

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[PHP] Newbie - Can't get sessions to work

[Shaun Campbell]

I've got a problem getting sessions to work and I wondered if anyone could
offer any advice.

The example I am using is to get one page to set variables in a session and
then use another page to retrieve them.  I am using 4.3.4RC2 and prior to
that 4.3..3 on Win2k with IE6 and Apache 1.3.22.

The code is:

page1.php
--
?php
 session_start();

 $_SESSION['foo'] = 'Hello';
 $_SESSION['bar'] = 'World';

 ?
HTML
HEAD
TITLE
/TITLE
/HEAD
BODY

Variables set in session - hopefully???

?php
 echo foo = {$_SESSION['foo']}BR;
 echo bar = {$_SESSION['bar']};
?

form action=page2.php method=post
input type=submit name=submit value=Page 2 /
/form

/BODY
/HTML

page2.php
--
?php
 session_start();
 echo foo = {$_SESSION['foo']};
 echo bar = {$_SESSION['bar']};

?

On page 1 I am seeing the session variables displayed correctly i.e. Hello
World and I can see a session file created in my temp directory with the
correct values in there.  However, when I display page 2 the variables are
always displayed blank and what seems to happen is that a new empty session
file is created in my temp directory.  It's as though the second page is not
related to the same session somehow.  I've also tried lots of other examples
from books and on the net and I still can't get sessions to work.

Am I doing something wrong in connecting the two pages although I don't
close the browser down at all between the two?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Shaun Campbell



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