[PHP] sessions failing to persist
As I posted last week, I seem unable to have sessions persist. I
have ruled out https as a problem, the following simple script,
installed as xxx.php will generate a new session number every time
the field is filled in and Submit is hit.
Note that I am not using cookies, the relevant session variables are:
Session Support enabled
session.auto_start On
session.use_cookies Off
session.use_trans_sidOn
When run, the session file appears to contain stage=1 but never is being
read.
I suspect I'm missing something obvious, any pointers?
/\/\ \/\/
?
if (!session_is_registered(stage)) {
$_SESSION[stage] = 0;
$_POST['field'] = ;
session_register(stage);
}
?
html headtitlePHP Test page/title/head
body
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION[stage];
echo SessionID: ; echo session_id();
$_SESSION[stage] = 1;
?
form method=post action=xxx.php
input type=text maxlength=7 size=7 name=field value=?echo $_POST['field']?
input type=submit value=Submit
/form
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION[stage];
?
/body /html
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Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist
Michael R. Wayne wrote: As I posted last week, I seem unable to have sessions persist. I have ruled out https as a problem, the following simple script, installed as xxx.php will generate a new session number every time the field is filled in and Submit is hit. Note that I am not using cookies, the relevant session variables are: Session Support enabled session.auto_start On session.use_cookies Off session.use_trans_sidOn When run, the session file appears to contain stage=1 but never is being read. I suspect I'm missing something obvious, any pointers? I copy and pasted your code, and didn't get the results you described above. Basically, it all worked fine on my box (and now I have to go put my ini settings back to my normal values ;) Is this a *nix or Windows machine? Is your session directory writable by the webserver user? -- By-Tor.com It's all about the Rush http://www.by-tor.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 12:54:54AM -0400, John Nichel wrote: Michael R. Wayne wrote: As I posted last week, I seem unable to have sessions persist. I have ruled out https as a problem, the following simple script, installed as xxx.php will generate a new session number every time the field is filled in and Submit is hit. Note that I am not using cookies, the relevant session variables are: Session Support enabled session.auto_start On session.use_cookies Off session.use_trans_sidOn When run, the session file appears to contain stage=1 but never is being read. I suspect I'm missing something obvious, any pointers? I copy and pasted your code, and didn't get the results you described above. Basically, it all worked fine on my box (and now I have to go put my ini settings back to my normal values ;) Is this a *nix or Windows machine? Is your session directory writable by the webserver user? FreeBSD 4.8 Unix. Yes, the session directory is writable and the files are getting properly written to that directory - the problem is that they are never being read (so each time I click Submit, I get a new session ID). /\/\ \/\/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist
If the sample of code is the whole page... where do you actually start
your session?
I didn't see a session_start() anywhere.
AFAIK the $_SESSION var doesn't exist until you do just that.
session_is_registered(): mabe I'm reading the documentation wrong, but
I interpret this function as checking whether there is the global var
(in this case $stage) ... and since register_globals is off there
shouldn't be such a var automatically any more.
..
In the user comments there's a good example of how to handle sessions.
http://www.php.net/session_is_registered#26464
hth
Richard
Monday, May 3, 2004, 6:40:18 AM, thus was written:
As I posted last week, I seem unable to have sessions persist. I
have ruled out https as a problem, the following simple script,
installed as xxx.php will generate a new session number every time
the field is filled in and Submit is hit.
Note that I am not using cookies, the relevant session variables are:
Session Support enabled
session.auto_start On
session.use_cookies Off
session.use_trans_sidOn
When run, the session file appears to contain stage=1 but never is being
read.
I suspect I'm missing something obvious, any pointers?
/\/\ \/\/
?
if (!session_is_registered(stage)) {
$_SESSION[stage] = 0;
$_POST['field'] = ;
session_register(stage);
}
?
html headtitlePHP Test page/title/head
body
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION[stage];
echo SessionID: ; echo session_id();
$_SESSION[stage] = 1;
?
form method=post action=xxx.php
input type=text maxlength=7 size=7 name=field
value=?echo $_POST['field']?
input type=submit value=Submit
/form
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION[stage];
?
/body /html
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Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 06:55:25AM +0200, Richard Harb wrote:
If the sample of code is the whole page... where do you actually start
your session?
I am using session.auto_start, which starts it for me. I added a
session_start while testing and it made no difference.
session_is_registered(): mabe I'm reading the documentation wrong, but
I interpret this function as checking whether there is the global var
(in this case $stage) ... and since register_globals is off there
shouldn't be such a var automatically any more.
In the user comments there's a good example of how to handle sessions.
http://www.php.net/session_is_registered#26464
OK, replaced it with the following, no change in behaviour. I still get
a new sessionID every time I hit Submit.
?
if (!isset($_SESSION[stage])) {
$_SESSION[stage] = 0;
$_POST['field'] = ;
session_register(stage);
}
?
html
headtitlePHP Test page/title/head
body
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION[stage];
echo SessionID: ; echo session_id();
$_SESSION[stage] = 1;
?
form method=post action=xxx.php
input type=text maxlength=7 size=7 name=field value=?echo $_POST['field']?
input type=submit value=Submit
/form
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION[stage];
?
/body /html
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Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist
Michael R. Wayne wrote: form method=post action=xxx.php input type=text maxlength=7 size=7 name=field value=?echo $_POST['field']? input type=submit value=Submit /form Try adding in a hidden element input type=hidden name=PHPSESSID value=?=session_id();? You're relying on PHP rewriting your forms, links, etc, to include the session id, but that doesn't seem to be happening. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals www.phparch.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist
* Thus wrote Michael R. Wayne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I suspect I'm missing something obvious, any pointers?
/\/\ \/\/
?
if (!session_is_registered(stage)) {
$_SESSION[stage] = 0;
$_POST['field'] = ;
session_register(stage);
}
manual
Caution
If you are using $_SESSION (or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS), do not use
session_register(), session_is_registered(), and
session_unregister().
/manual
Curt
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Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:13:11AM -0400, John W. Holmes wrote: Michael R. Wayne wrote: form method=post action=xxx.php input type=text maxlength=7 size=7 name=field value=?echo $_POST['field']? input type=submit value=Submit /form Try adding in a hidden element input type=hidden name=PHPSESSID value=?=session_id();? You're relying on PHP rewriting your forms, links, etc, to include the session id, but that doesn't seem to be happening. I pasted that line just before the /form and the behaviour remains unchanged. No SessionId is never showing up in the access.log /\/\ \/\/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
