Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] --- Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a problem with PHP not remembering sessions. for example: in page1.php: ? session_start(); $_SESSION[var] = Please help; ? form action=sessionTest2.php method=post input type=text name=loopCount size=21, maxlength=20/td input type=submit value=Submit/td in page2.php ? session_start(); echo $_SESSION[var]; echo $_POST[loopCount]; ? what I see above is only data for loopCount. I am not able to see the Please help on page2 I noticed that 2 cookies were created one for each session start. When I opened one of the cookies, I noticed that the data Please help was in the session cookie. Somehow php thinks a session is not already created and starts a new session on page2.php. my php.ini file has: register_globals = off session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.auto_start = 0 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 Please can someone help me. I am not sure what I am doing wrong? Maybe it is some configuration that is causing this issue. Any help appreciated. Thanks, moiz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
It seems that there is a problem with the session management on windows/apache. I was surfing the web to find an answer, and I noticed that there are couple of other people who have the same problem. But alas, there were no answers posted to this problem. So someone, please help me if you know why this is happening. Thanks Moiz -Original Message- From: Daniel Guerrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:04 PM To: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] --- Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a problem with PHP not remembering sessions. for example: in page1.php: ? session_start(); $_SESSION[var] = Please help; ? form action=sessionTest2.php method=post input type=text name=loopCount size=21, maxlength=20/td input type=submit value=Submit/td in page2.php ? session_start(); echo $_SESSION[var]; echo $_POST[loopCount]; ? what I see above is only data for loopCount. I am not able to see the Please help on page2 I noticed that 2 cookies were created one for each session start. When I opened one of the cookies, I noticed that the data Please help was in the session cookie. Somehow php thinks a session is not already created and starts a new session on page2.php. my php.ini file has: register_globals = off session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.auto_start = 0 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 Please can someone help me. I am not sure what I am doing wrong? Maybe it is some configuration that is causing this issue. Any help appreciated. Thanks, moiz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
Strange, because I just set up the code exactly as posted below, under Win2K and Apache 2.0, and it worked fine. Cheers, Pablo -Original Message- From: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:11 PM To: Daniel Guerrier; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions It seems that there is a problem with the session management on windows/apache. I was surfing the web to find an answer, and I noticed that there are couple of other people who have the same problem. But alas, there were no answers posted to this problem. So someone, please help me if you know why this is happening. Thanks Moiz -Original Message- From: Daniel Guerrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:04 PM To: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] --- Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a problem with PHP not remembering sessions. for example: in page1.php: ? session_start(); $_SESSION[var] = Please help; ? form action=sessionTest2.php method=post input type=text name=loopCount size=21, maxlength=20/td input type=submit value=Submit/td in page2.php ? session_start(); echo $_SESSION[var]; echo $_POST[loopCount]; ? what I see above is only data for loopCount. I am not able to see the Please help on page2 I noticed that 2 cookies were created one for each session start. When I opened one of the cookies, I noticed that the data Please help was in the session cookie. Somehow php thinks a session is not already created and starts a new session on page2.php. my php.ini file has: register_globals = off session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.auto_start = 0 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 Please can someone help me. I am not sure what I am doing wrong? Maybe it is some configuration that is causing this issue. Any help appreciated. Thanks, moiz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
* Thus wrote Daniel Guerrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] This doesn't matter. Curt -- My PHP key is worn out PHP List stats since 1997: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
Pablo Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange, because I just set up the code exactly as posted below, under Win2K and Apache 2.0, and it worked fine. Cheers, Pablo -Original Message- From: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:11 PM To: Daniel Guerrier; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions It seems that there is a problem with the session management on windows/apache. I was surfing the web to find an answer, and I noticed that there are couple of other people who have the same problem. But alas, there were no answers posted to this problem. So someone, please help me if you know why this is happening. Thanks Moiz -Original Message- From: Daniel Guerrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:04 PM To: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] --- Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a problem with PHP not remembering sessions. for example: in page1.php: ? session_start(); $_SESSION[var] = Please help; ? form action=sessionTest2.php method=post input type=text name=loopCount size=21, maxlength=20/td input type=submit value=Submit/td in page2.php ? session_start(); echo $_SESSION[var]; echo $_POST[loopCount]; ? what I see above is only data for loopCount. I am not able to see the Please help on page2 I noticed that 2 cookies were created one for each session start. When I opened one of the cookies, I noticed that the data Please help was in the session cookie. Somehow php thinks a session is not already created and starts a new session on page2.php. my php.ini file has: register_globals = off session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.auto_start = 0 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 Please can someone help me. I am not sure what I am doing wrong? Maybe it is some configuration that is causing this issue. Any help appreciated. Thanks, moiz Seems strange to me, too. Did you set the save_handler for how sessions are stored right and the corresponding save_path (if using session.save_handler = file)? Also notice that the save_path should be made writable to php/apache. Between $_SESSION[var] and $_SESSION['var'] should be no difference (except the obvious difference between the and the ' themselves). I can't reproduce the problem on none of my systems (win9x, win2k, winxp, and some linux machines). -- Dennis Sterzenbach www.darknoise.de -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
* Thus wrote Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I noticed that 2 cookies were created one for each session start. When I opened one of the cookies, I noticed that the data Please help was in the session cookie. Somehow php thinks a session is not already created and starts a new session on page2.php. I think you mean the session file had the please help not the cookie. The cookie will only have the session id in it. my php.ini file has: register_globals = off session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.auto_start = 0 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 Please can someone help me. I am not sure what I am doing wrong? Maybe it is some configuration that is causing this issue. Any help appreciated. Ensure your browser is accepting cookies. If you dont accept a cookie on the first request then the second request will start a whole new session without the previous data. Curt -- My PHP key is worn out PHP List stats since 1997: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
are you using session save handler routines? If not make sure you have a /tmp directory on your server, in fact you can check phpinfo() to find out what the session save directory is (provided you are not using save handler routines). good luck Warren Vail -Original Message- From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions * Thus wrote Daniel Guerrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] This doesn't matter. Curt -- My PHP key is worn out PHP List stats since 1997: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
This is what is defined in the php.ini file for save handler routines.. I am newbie, I left it with default values: session.save_handler = files session.save_path = c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/Alarms/ thanks moiz -Original Message- From: Vail, Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:27 PM To: 'Curt Zirzow'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions are you using session save handler routines? If not make sure you have a /tmp directory on your server, in fact you can check phpinfo() to find out what the session save directory is (provided you are not using save handler routines). good luck Warren Vail -Original Message- From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions * Thus wrote Daniel Guerrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] This doesn't matter. Curt -- My PHP key is worn out PHP List stats since 1997: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
Moiz M Golawala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what is defined in the php.ini file for save handler routines.. I am newbie, I left it with default values: session.save_handler = files session.save_path = c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/Alarms/ thanks moiz Change your save_path to C:/tmp and create this directory, if it does not exist. I never trust the blanks in directory names under windoze. -- Dennis Sterzenbach www.darknoise.de -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
I was surfing the web to find out if I was the only one with this strange problem and I found out that I was not alone.. Aparently there was a bug in php version 4.1.0 regarding this. However there is no bugs like this noted for php version 4.3.2 (which is what I am running). rgds moiz -Original Message- From: Vail, Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:27 PM To: 'Curt Zirzow'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions are you using session save handler routines? If not make sure you have a /tmp directory on your server, in fact you can check phpinfo() to find out what the session save directory is (provided you are not using save handler routines). good luck Warren Vail -Original Message- From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions * Thus wrote Daniel Guerrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] This doesn't matter. Curt -- My PHP key is worn out PHP List stats since 1997: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
while this doesn't mean that save handler routines are not used, it provides some clues. Does the directory pointed to by the session.save_path contain session files (they will usually have an encrypted filename)? save handler routines are actually defined in your php files, usually dynamically, possibly in a common include file; and they override but do not change the settings in your php.ini file. http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php The directory pointed to, looks suspicious since it appears that it may be in the web space area (accessible to http:), if someone can browse that directory with a browser, all kinds of good things might be found inside sessions??? if your http.conf file (for apache) points to something other than htdocs as the web root, you may be ok. Warren -Original Message- From: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:31 PM To: Vail, Warren; Curt Zirzow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions This is what is defined in the php.ini file for save handler routines.. I am newbie, I left it with default values: session.save_handler = files session.save_path = c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/Alarms/ thanks moiz -Original Message- From: Vail, Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:27 PM To: 'Curt Zirzow'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions are you using session save handler routines? If not make sure you have a /tmp directory on your server, in fact you can check phpinfo() to find out what the session save directory is (provided you are not using save handler routines). good luck Warren Vail -Original Message- From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions * Thus wrote Daniel Guerrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] This doesn't matter. Curt -- My PHP key is worn out PHP List stats since 1997: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
--- Daniel Guerrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] That won't make any difference. As for the original question, I don't notice any immediate problems with the code: in page1.php: ? session_start(); $_SESSION[var] = Please help; ? form action=sessionTest2.php method=post input type=text name=loopCount size=21, maxlength=20/td input type=submit value=Submit/td in page2.php: ? session_start(); echo $_SESSION[var]; echo $_POST[loopCount]; ? You mentioned seeing Please help in a cookie. Are you certain about this? I don't understand how that can end up in a cookie unless you set the cookie yourself or there is a serious bug. Aside from that, it is also worth analyzing exactly what cookies are getting sent by the browser when it requets page2.php. Can you show us the HTTP for this particular transaction? Chris = My Blog http://shiflett.org/ HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
Hi Warren, Ahh.. now i know what you mean by save handler routines.. I don't have any in any of my php files. yes, the save_path was pointing to the place where I have the web files stored. I can see the session files in that directory. I have tried to point to another directory too. But I have the same problem. Each time I do a session start on a page, I have a new session file. The first one has data in it because I add the data to the session on the page. The second session file is empty. Infact if I have an ?echo SID;? on each of the 2 pages, I see different session Ids. You are correct.. I didn't think about a user getting to the session files. modify the php.ini file to save the session files to a more secure location. Regards, Moiz Golawala Casi-Rusco, a GE Interlogix Company 791 Park Of Commerce Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33487 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 561-912-5972 * 561-912-1650 * -Original Message- From: Vail, Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:42 PM To: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix); Curt Zirzow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions while this doesn't mean that save handler routines are not used, it provides some clues. Does the directory pointed to by the session.save_path contain session files (they will usually have an encrypted filename)? save handler routines are actually defined in your php files, usually dynamically, possibly in a common include file; and they override but do not change the settings in your php.ini file. http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php The directory pointed to, looks suspicious since it appears that it may be in the web space area (accessible to http:), if someone can browse that directory with a browser, all kinds of good things might be found inside sessions??? if your http.conf file (for apache) points to something other than htdocs as the web root, you may be ok. Warren -Original Message- From: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:31 PM To: Vail, Warren; Curt Zirzow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions This is what is defined in the php.ini file for save handler routines.. I am newbie, I left it with default values: session.save_handler = files session.save_path = c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/Alarms/ thanks moiz -Original Message- From: Vail, Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:27 PM To: 'Curt Zirzow'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions are you using session save handler routines? If not make sure you have a /tmp directory on your server, in fact you can check phpinfo() to find out what the session save directory is (provided you are not using save handler routines). good luck Warren Vail -Original Message- From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions * Thus wrote Daniel Guerrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] This doesn't matter. Curt -- My PHP key is worn out PHP List stats since 1997: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
Chris, I am sorry to call it a cookie.. I see the data in a session file (not a cookie) I don't have a html file. I simply call the .php file by typing the url as http://localhost/page1.php Thanks moiz -Original Message- From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:49 PM To: Daniel Guerrier; Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions --- Daniel Guerrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use $_SESSION['var'] instead of $_SESSION[var] That won't make any difference. As for the original question, I don't notice any immediate problems with the code: in page1.php: ? session_start(); $_SESSION[var] = Please help; ? form action=sessionTest2.php method=post input type=text name=loopCount size=21, maxlength=20/td input type=submit value=Submit/td in page2.php: ? session_start(); echo $_SESSION[var]; echo $_POST[loopCount]; ? You mentioned seeing Please help in a cookie. Are you certain about this? I don't understand how that can end up in a cookie unless you set the cookie yourself or there is a serious bug. Aside from that, it is also worth analyzing exactly what cookies are getting sent by the browser when it requets page2.php. Can you show us the HTTP for this particular transaction? Chris = My Blog http://shiflett.org/ HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
--- Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sorry to call it a cookie.. I see the data in a session file (not a cookie) OK, so you just look in this file manually? I don't have a html file. I simply call the .php file by typing the url as http://localhost/page1.php HTML and HTTP are two different things. What I wanted to find out is whether your browser is sending the cookie when it requests that second page. Put this code in there: pThe cookie data is: pre[? print_r($_POST); ?]/pre Let us know what that shows. Chris = My Blog http://shiflett.org/ HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
Sounds to me like the browser you are using has cookies disabled? Curious, do you see a parameter in your php.ini labeled session.name? In fact, why don't you compare your setup to the following from a foxserv installation of sessions; Directive Local Value Master Value session.auto_start OffOff session.cache_expire 180 180 session.cache_limiternocache nocache session.cookie_domain no value no value session.cookie_lifetime 00 session.cookie_path // session.cookie_secure OffOff session.entropy_file no value no value session.entropy_length 0 0 session.gc_maxlifetime 14401440 session.gc_probability1 1 session.namePHPSESSID PHPSESSID session.referer_checkno valueno value session.save_handler files files session.save_path C:\FoxServ\sessiondata C:\FoxServ\sessiondata session.serialize_handlerphp php session.use_cookies On On session.use_trans_sid 1 1 I have had people (who didn't know what they were doing) change values like cookie_lifetime and cause sessions to look like they had timed out after the cookie was distroyed by the browser. hope this gets you back and running. Warren -Original Message- From: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:49 PM To: Vail, Warren; Curt Zirzow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions Hi Warren, Ahh.. now i know what you mean by save handler routines.. I don't have any in any of my php files. yes, the save_path was pointing to the place where I have the web files stored. I can see the session files in that directory. I have tried to point to another directory too. But I have the same problem. Each time I do a session start on a page, I have a new session file. The first one has data in it because I add the data to the session on the page. The second session file is empty. Infact if I have an ?echo SID;? on each of the 2 pages, I see different session Ids. You are correct.. I didn't think about a user getting to the session files. modify the php.ini file to save the session files to a more secure location. Regards, Moiz Golawala Casi-Rusco, a GE Interlogix Company 791 Park Of Commerce Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33487 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 561-912-5972 * 561-912-1650 * -Original Message- From: Vail, Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:42 PM To: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix); Curt Zirzow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions while this doesn't mean that save handler routines are not used, it provides some clues. Does the directory pointed to by the session.save_path contain session files (they will usually have an encrypted filename)? save handler routines are actually defined in your php files, usually dynamically, possibly in a common include file; and they override but do not change the settings in your php.ini file. http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php The directory pointed to, looks suspicious since it appears that it may be in the web space area (accessible to http:), if someone can browse that directory with a browser, all kinds of good things might be found inside sessions??? if your http.conf file (for apache) points to something other than htdocs as the web root, you may be ok. Warren -Original Message- From: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:31 PM To: Vail, Warren; Curt Zirzow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions This is what is defined in the php.ini file for save handler routines.. I am newbie, I left it with default values: session.save_handler = files session.save_path = c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/Alarms/ thanks moiz -Original Message- From: Vail, Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:27 PM To: 'Curt Zirzow'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions are you using session save handler routines? If not make sure you have a /tmp directory on your server, in fact you can check phpinfo() to find out what the session save directory is (provided you are not using save handler routines). good luck Warren
RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions
I added the code you mentioned. Below is the result from the browser. I notice that the sessionId is the correct one from the previous page. I think this is good new.. :) 2 [Array ( [PHPSESSID] = 0572d98f00483accdc6e61348b359287 [loopCount] = 2 ) ] Thanks moiz -Original Message- From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:03 PM To: Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix); Daniel Guerrier; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP not remembering sessions --- Golawala, Moiz M (IndSys, GE Interlogix) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sorry to call it a cookie.. I see the data in a session file (not a cookie) OK, so you just look in this file manually? I don't have a html file. I simply call the .php file by typing the url as http://localhost/page1.php HTML and HTTP are two different things. What I wanted to find out is whether your browser is sending the cookie when it requests that second page. Put this code in there: pThe cookie data is: pre[? print_r($_POST); ?]/pre Let us know what that shows. Chris = My Blog http://shiflett.org/ HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
