Re: [PHP] Sessions Problems

2004-09-03 Thread Jason Davidson
Read up on 'named sessions' I think that may be your solution jason Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Octavio Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I do not store two items with the same key, I just open another session in other page and it just overwrite session data of a previous

Re: [PHP] Sessions Problems

2004-09-03 Thread Mark
--- Jason Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read up on 'named sessions' I think that may be your solution Interesting... here's a link to php.net. I assume this is what you're talking about... Looks promising. http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.session-name.php jason Mark [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] Sessions and Logins

2004-09-03 Thread Greg Donald
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 15:27, Dennis Gearon wrote: I am designing my own 'usr' class that takes care of logins. I need to know the following to finish it. --- A/ Does anybody use sessions for users who are not logged into the site,

Re: [PHP] Sessions NOT working - somebody please help me!

2004-08-28 Thread Jason Wong
On Saturday 28 August 2004 18:52, gregosh wrote: Sorry for posting this problem again but it's been really driving me crazy. I've reinstalled Apache and PHP for the 5th time and the result is still the same - sessions work only when using a href=b.phpclick/a link. When using header(location:

Re: [PHP] Sessions NOT working - somebody please help me!

2004-08-28 Thread gregosh
U¿ytkownik Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 28 August 2004 18:52, gregosh wrote: Sorry for posting this problem again but it's been really driving me crazy. I've reinstalled Apache and PHP for the 5th time and the result is still the same

Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security

2004-08-25 Thread Stanislav Kuhn
Thanks guys for helps.. I've tried many that things and I found solution. Solution for me was set up Privacy Policy for our site... First time it didn't work because i haven't done Compact privacy policy witch is optional but IE requires it ;o) While compact policies are entirely optional for

Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security

2004-08-24 Thread John Holmes
Stanislav Kuhn wrote: I have a problem and i can't find solution. Poblem is with security level of IE and using session. Normaly IE sending session id to server automatically, when you lift security level in IE to HIGH (i'm talking about version 6.x now) IE doesn't send session id atomatically to

Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security

2004-08-24 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Stanislav Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But problem is when I want to include my sctipt to a client web site. Technically my script is included in frame of html page on another server. I know, using frames is . but clients are using them very offten and I can do nothing with that.

[PHP] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security

2004-08-24 Thread Stanislav Kuhn
. -Original Message- From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 August 2004 16:46 To: Stanislav Kuhn; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPAM] Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security --- Stanislav Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But problem is when I want to include my sctipt to a client web site

RE: [PHP] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Sims
Stanislav Kuhn wrote: Thanks for help. I have set up p3p policy to my site.. I passed it trouth validator and IE can find privacy policy but it still doesn't allow me cookies... I can't find information what exactly to specify in privacy policy IE allows me third party cookies... Does

RE: [PHP] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security

2004-08-24 Thread Ed Lazor
-Original Message- Thanks for help. I have set up p3p policy to my site.. I passed it trouth validator and IE can find privacy policy but it still doesn't allow me cookies... I can't find information what exactly to specify in privacy policy IE allows me third party cookies... Does

Re: [PHP] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security

2004-08-24 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Stanislav Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for help. I have set up p3p policy to my site.. I passed it trouth validator and IE can find privacy policy but it still doesn't allow me cookies... I can't find information what exactly to specify in privacy policy IE allows me third party

Re: [PHP] Sessions nightmare continue...

2004-08-17 Thread Jason Wong
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 17:46, Angelo Zanetti wrote: Still no luck with sessions. I have installed an older version: 4.3.1 and have register_globals=Off I have 2 test pages a1.php and a2.php All I want to do is register a session variable, set a value for it and then in a2.php check that

Re: [PHP] Sessions nightmare continue...

2004-08-17 Thread Chris Shiflett
Hi Angelo, --- Angelo Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still no luck with sessions. [snip] a1.php: ? session_start(); header(Cache-control: private); // IE 6 Fix. if(isset($_POST['Submit'])) { $_SESSION[login]=inside; session_write_close();

Re: [PHP] sessions not working when page redirects

2004-08-10 Thread Jason Wong
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 19:50, Angelo Zanetti wrote: Im having a slightly weird problem with my session variables. when on a certain page call it A, I register a session variable and assign it a value. I then test if it is registered successfully and has the correct value on the same page,

Re: [PHP] sessions not working when page redirects

2004-08-10 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Angelo Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im having a slightly weird problem with my session variables. when on a certain page call it A, I register a session variable and assign it a value. I then test if it is registered successfully and has the correct value on the same page, that works no

RE: [PHP] sessions not working when page redirects

2004-08-10 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 10 August 2004 13:19, Ron Stiemer wrote: Hi there, Try to add the session_id(); into the redirection: header(Location: ../admin/include/B.php?PHPSESSID= . session_id() ); No, no, no! Use the SID constant -- that's what it's for. It only has a value if you need one, so:

RE: [PHP] Sessions Problem !!

2004-08-06 Thread Ed Lazor
You need to give us the error in order to help troubleshoot it. -Original Message- I'm kinda new at PHP and I was trying to install one of the mailing lists and newsletter systems and during the installation process I got errors evertime the session_start() function called .. I had

Re: [PHP] Sessions Problem !!

2004-08-06 Thread Dre
the exact error messages are == Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_000c30790862f64268e755546b6fcbb2, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Program Files\Apache

Re: [PHP] Sessions Problem !!

2004-08-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Hard to help when we don't know what the error is. You have to call session_start() before any output to the page, even a single space. Try it with a simple example you create to get a feel on how it works, then break it so it doesn't work, and you'll be in better shape to diagnose your

Re: [PHP] Sessions Problem !!

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Dre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_000c30790862f64268e755546b6fcbb2, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\maillist\maillist\admin.php on line 1 You need to set the correct

Re: [PHP] Sessions Timeout

2004-07-27 Thread Jason Davidson
I would put a timelimit on the session, create a session var called time, or loginTime or something, and compare it to time() with php, give a leyway of an hour or something. This is a standard securty measure to prevent people from leaving the pc with a session running all day, and someone else

Re: [PHP] Sessions Timeout

2004-07-27 Thread Matt M.
Problem is that when someone goes so far in the ordering process, and then (for whatever reason) leaves the site, and comes back hours, seconds or whatever later, and goes again to place an order, the details are different (time), and the session stays the same so the order entry is entered

RE: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions Question

2004-07-09 Thread Ed Lazor
Thanks Jason, I'll keep the information handy for creating my own session handler in case other options I'm exploring right now don't work. On garbage collection, it happens sometimes within seconds and sometimes within minutes. It tends to occur in batches with lulls of 20 to 30 minutes. So,

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions Question

2004-07-09 Thread Jason Barnett
On garbage collection, it happens sometimes within seconds and sometimes within minutes. It tends to occur in batches with lulls of 20 to 30 minutes. So, for example, I can login, navigate through 11 different pages to generate the problem, navigate 2 pages to generate the problem, and then not

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions Question

2004-07-09 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Jason Barnett: On garbage collection, it happens sometimes within seconds and sometimes within minutes. It tends to occur in batches with lulls of 20 to 30 minutes. So, for example, I can login, navigate through 11 different pages to generate the problem, navigate 2 pages to

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions Question

2004-07-09 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote My Self: or using the default handler, and the /tmp dir is full. where /tmp being the local value for your session.save_path ini setting. Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the

RE: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions Question

2004-07-09 Thread Warren Vail
, July 08, 2004 11:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions Question On garbage collection, it happens sometimes within seconds and sometimes within minutes. It tends to occur in batches with lulls of 20 to 30 minutes. So, for example, I can login, navigate through 11

[PHP] Re: PHP Sessions Question

2004-07-08 Thread Jason Barnett
Ed Lazor wrote: What kind of problems could be happening server-side that would result in PHP sessions randomly disappearing? And, is there a way to log or track this information? Oh, and best of all, any recommendations on solutions? To try logging this, you probably need to make your own

RE: [PHP] sessions cookies

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Sims
Scott Taylor wrote: How exactly do sessions work? I've heard that if cookies are disabled that a session will then pass it's variables in the url (through GET). Yet when I manually disable cookies none of my pages work (because the $_SESSION variables do not seem to be working). The

Re: [PHP] sessions

2004-06-04 Thread Enda Nagle - Lists
Mark, You need to do this: $name = . $FirstName . , . $LastName . ; Regards Enda -- On 05/06/2004 01:22, BigMark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why is this not working. I am using instead of a form ($name = $_POST[name];) and linking to it from a users logged in page. $FirstName =

Re: [PHP] sessions

2004-06-04 Thread James Kaufman
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:22:57PM -0800, BigMark wrote: why is this not working. I am using instead of a form ($name = $_POST[name];) and linking to it from a users logged in page. $FirstName = $_SESSION['first_name']; $LastName = $_SESSION['last_name']; $name = $FirstName , $LastName;

Re: [PHP] sessions

2004-06-04 Thread Daniel Clark
Did you have session_start() on this page before accessing the session variables? Could also do: $name = $_SESSION['first_name'] , $_SESSION['last_name'] ; why is this not working. I am using instead of a form ($name = $_POST[name];) and linking to it from a users logged in page. $FirstName =

RE: [PHP] sessions handling

2004-06-02 Thread Vincent DUPONT
Hi, I beleive that if both servers run the same hostname (www.foo.com) (cookie domain) and both session files are stored in the same place (/tmp), then the session is unique for 80 and 443 ports. you could simply test this be adding a $_SESSION['foo']='port80'; on the HTTP server instance and

Re: [PHP] Sessions simply do not work?

2004-05-25 Thread Peter Risdon
Michael R. Wayne wrote: In my continuing efforts to actually get sessions to work, I upgraded to PHP 4.3.6 and apache 1.3.31. This did not make the slighest difference. So, does ANYone have ideas of how to debug this? Or is PHP simply broken and no longer able to maintain sessions? /\/\ \/\/

Re: [PHP] Sessions simply do not work?

2004-05-25 Thread Brent Baisley
I've never had a problem using sessions. Do you have a sample piece of simple session code that isn't working? You also need to have cookies enabled on your client if you are using the default session management technique. Your very first line of code, before you do anything else, should be

Re: [PHP] Sessions simply do not work?

2004-05-25 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:37:47AM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote: Michael R. Wayne wrote: In my continuing efforts to actually get sessions to work, I upgraded to PHP 4.3.6 and apache 1.3.31. This did not make the slighest difference. So, does ANYone have ideas of how to debug this? Or is

Re: [PHP] Sessions simply do not work?

2004-05-25 Thread John Nichel
Michael R. Wayne wrote: It seems that people have forgotten last week's postings. To recap: Session support worked fine in 4.1.2. It's broken in 4.3.4 and 4.3.6 What doesn't work in 4.3.6? I'm running 4.3.6 w/ Apache 1.3.31 on both a Fedora Core 1 and Mac OS X box, and haven't had a problem

Re: [PHP] Sessions simply do not work?

2004-05-25 Thread Michael R. Wayne
Sessions do not work properly for me. Thanks to other people on this list, we've proven that the test script I am using works fine for other people. So, something is wrong with PHP on all of my systems since the same script fails (see previous posts) on multiple servers for me. So, I am now

Re: [PHP] Sessions simply do not work?

2004-05-25 Thread Torsten Roehr
Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sessions do not work properly for me. Thanks to other people on this list, we've proven that the test script I am using works fine for other people. So, something is wrong with PHP on all of my systems since the same

Re: [PHP] sessions

2004-05-23 Thread Daniel Clark
Should username have quote around it? Wouldn't it try to make it a constant otherwise? echo $_SESSION['username'] Hi, All my session_start() calls were working fine. But since yesterday the vars i use does not keep there value i use $_SESSION['varname'] Nothing has been changed to the

Re: [PHP] sessions

2004-05-23 Thread Jeroen Serpieters
On Sun, 23 May 2004, Daniel Clark wrote: Should username have quote around it? Wouldn't it try to make it a constant otherwise? echo $_SESSION['username'] Unfortunately, imho, php doesn't seem to care that much in such cases ;-) $_SESSION[username] will have the same result as

Re: [PHP] sessions

2004-05-23 Thread Martin Geisler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Davey) writes: Perhaps - imagine how many scripts out there would break if it did :) (not that I'd care, I code exclusively with E_ALL) Actually, doesn't PHP5 do this? The following test gives just one 'Notice: Use of undefined constant foo...' message when I run

Re: [PHP] Sessions still do not persist

2004-05-21 Thread Daniel Clark
Try a session_start() at the top of pages, see if that works. Maybe the auto_start does not work. I've posted several times mentioning that I am completely unable to cause sessions to persist. Over the intervening time, I have replicated this problem to a different machine, with the same

Re: [PHP] Sessions still do not persist

2004-05-21 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:02:49AM -0700, Daniel Clark wrote: Try a session_start() at the top of pages, see if that works. Maybe the auto_start does not work. Done: session.auto_start = 0 added session_start to script. No change in behaviour. /\/\ \/\/ -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Sessions still do not persist

2004-05-21 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Michael R. Wayne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've posted several times mentioning that I am completely unable to cause sessions to persist. Over the intervening time, I have replicated this problem to a different machine, with the same results. Here's a recap of the problem. I am

Re: [PHP] Sessions still do not persist

2004-05-21 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:41:00PM +, Curt Zirzow wrote: * Thus wrote Michael R. Wayne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've posted several times mentioning that I am completely unable to cause sessions to persist. Over the intervening time, I have replicated this problem to a different

Re: [PHP] Sessions not working on Linux - Apache

2004-05-12 Thread John Nichel
Zac Hillier - Net Affectors wrote: Running on apache 1.3 session.save_handler = files session.save_path = /tmp session.use_cookies = 1 session.name = i session.auto_start = 0 session.cookie_lifetime = 0 session_start() is included in the top of each page. When I test session files are being

Re: [PHP] Sessions not working on Linux - Apache

2004-05-12 Thread Zac
What version of PHP? How are you 'setting' session variables? Version 4.2.2 $_SESSION[test] = 'testData'; Cheers Zac -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Sessions not working on Linux - Apache

2004-05-12 Thread John Nichel
Zac wrote: Thanks for your response: PHP Version 4.2.2 $_SESSION[test] = 'testData'; Regards Zac Please respond to the list, and not to an individual user (unless asked of course). Try adding quotes around your key... $_SESSION['test'] = testData; -- John C. Nichel KegWorks.com

Re: [PHP] Sessions not working on Linux - Apache - FOllow Up

2004-05-12 Thread Zac
Have looked at this more and can now tell you that this is definatley down to the server not writing any contents into the sess_nnn file. Does anyone have any ideas why this would happen? I've checked all permissions and tried changing the save_path to another folder that I created

Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist

2004-05-02 Thread John Nichel
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,

Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist

2004-05-02 Thread Michael R. Wayne
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

Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Harb
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

Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist

2004-05-02 Thread Michael R. Wayne
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():

Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist

2004-05-02 Thread John W. Holmes
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

Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist

2004-05-02 Thread Curt Zirzow
* 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

Re: [PHP] sessions failing to persist

2004-05-02 Thread Michael R. Wayne
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

Re: [PHP] sessions getting destroyed for *Some* clients

2004-04-19 Thread Travis Low
Make sure it's not just a cookie-problem related to server name. The shopping cart session for original-remote-control.co.uk is different from the shopping cart for www.original-remote-control.co.uk. If this is your problem, I think you can fix it by changing how you call setcookie. Of

Re: [PHP] Sessions and PHP

2004-03-26 Thread John W. Holmes
Patrik Fomin wrote: Let me rephrase it, i got a login page, once logged in you you got the session $_SESSION['in'] = true; i want to be able to count the number of people that are logged in atm, so when they logout with either logout button or close the window, i want to then decrese the number.

Re: [PHP] Sessions and PHP

2004-03-26 Thread Patrik Fomin
how do i determine if a session has been destroyed/created ? patrick John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev i meddelandet news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrik Fomin wrote: Let me rephrase it, i got a login page, once logged in you you got the session $_SESSION['in'] = true; i want to be

Re: [PHP] Sessions and PHP

2004-03-24 Thread Filip de Waard
On Mar 25, 2004, at 2:05 AM, Patrik Fomin wrote: is there anyway to get the number of people connected to the site? in asp you just use Application and session_terminate to accomplish this is there anyway to do this in PHP Hi Patrick, As far as I know this is not possible with default PHP

Re: [PHP] Sessions and PHP

2004-03-24 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Patrik Fomin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to get the number of people connected to the site? in asp you just use Application and session_terminate to accomplish this is there anyway to do this in PHP? Taken literally, you are asking about the number of active connections,

Re: [PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Andy B [EMAIL PROTECTED] From what I understand about sessions you can give a session a particular name like doing: session_start(SessionName); You can give it a name, but you don't have to. PHP will use the default name if you don't and you'll just need to use session_start(); So in

[PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
[snip] If you give the session a custom name, then, yes, you'll have to use that name on every page. $name can be something that in an include file or a constant, etc, though. Again, you don't _have_ to give a name, though. There's no real advantage to using another name, though, as it's going to

RE: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Andy B mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:19 PM said: so the theory is: if i require that the session be named after the persons login name there is probably 1 out of 2 million chances that it will mess up the names and get confused (specially if there are only a few

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Elliot J. Balanza
What are the chances of two people getting the same session number in a thousends of day operation? When you down the size of that to a couple hundeed a day... WHy do we need to have a session name for that? Vamp Chris W. Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
as long as your usernames are unique you should never have a problem. (assuming everything else works as planned.) it should... i want to use sessions for a login system and stuff too but i want it to check to see if the person is logged in before going to the login section... if the session

[PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
What are the chances of two people getting the same session number in a thousends of day operation? When you down the size of that to a couple hundeed a day... WHy do we need to have a session name for that? because eventually i want to take the user name (session name/variables/user info) and

RE: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Elliot J. Balanza mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:43 PM said: What are the chances of two people getting the same session number in a thousends of day operation? When you down the size of that to a couple hundeed a day... WHy do we need to have a session name for

RE: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Andy B mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:43 PM said: as long as your usernames are unique you should never have a problem. (assuming everything else works as planned.) it should... it will. a unique value is a unique value. is this code valid?? ?php

RE: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Andy B mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:49 PM said: because eventually i want to take the user name (session name/variables/user info) and create a preferences section of the website im doing and that would require a constant session name from visit to visit yeah

[PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
you've already got that unique identifier. it's the username. the username will stay unique visit to visit, therefore you don't need to go against the design of the session id. the session id is not meant to keep uniqueness across multiple visits, only the current visit. are we/me

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Andy B wrote: as long as your usernames are unique you should never have a problem. (assuming everything else works as planned.) it should... i want to use sessions for a login system and stuff too but i want it to check to see if the person is logged in before going to the login section... if

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Andy B wrote: WHy do we need to have a session name for that? because eventually i want to take the user name (session name/variables/user info) and create a preferences section of the website im doing and that would require a constant session name from visit to visit Ummm... that's why you set a

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Andy B wrote: [snip] If you give the session a custom name, then, yes, you'll have to use that name on every page. $name can be something that in an include file or a constant, etc, though. Again, you don't _have_ to give a name, though. There's no real advantage to using another name, though, as

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Andy B wrote: you've already got that unique identifier. it's the username. the username will stay unique visit to visit, therefore you don't need to go against the design of the session id. the session id is not meant to keep uniqueness across multiple visits, only the current visit. are

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread trlists
On 22 Mar 2004 Andy B wrote: so the theory is: if i require that the session be named after the persons login name there is probably 1 out of 2 million chances that it will mess up the names and get confused (specially if there are only a few users allowed)... If the login name is unique and

[PHP] Re: PHP Sessions - One Server, Many Terminals

2004-03-16 Thread memoimyself
Damon, Sessions have to do with requests being sent by browsers to the web server. Each time you close all the windows of your browser on your computer and start the browser again, a new session is started. I suspect that since all your users are essentially using the same web browser (since

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions - One Server, Many Terminals

2004-03-16 Thread trlists
On 16 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sessions have to do with requests being sent by browsers to the web server. Each time you close all the windows of your browser on your computer and start the browser again, a new session is started. I suspect that since all your users are

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions - One Server, Many Terminals

2004-03-16 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi, Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 11:28:04 AM, you wrote: tcc On 16 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tcc I have had questions about this for a while. What is it about closing tcc and reopening the browser that PHP notices and that invalidates the tcc old session? tcc Also a comment ... I think

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions - One Server, Many Terminals

2004-03-16 Thread trlists
On 17 Mar 2004 Tom Rogers wrote: The default lifetime for session cookies is until the browser is closed. Of course. slapping head You can run multiple sessions as long as they are to different domains I think. I am pretty sure PHP can only handle 1 session per client but you could

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Re: PHP Sessions - One Server, Many Terminals

2004-03-16 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, I would contend that PHP, particularly running inside stateless HTTP, doesn't know one client from another except by the code you write that makes it recognize them You're exactly right. if you had a way to set multiple cookies (easy) and to know which

Re: [PHP] Sessions

2004-03-16 Thread John W. Holmes
Will wrote: Hello All, I am having a problem. When I log into a forum it says Page Cannot Be Displayed I looked at my logs and did not find anything. I did a search everywhere and found nothing. As did your web server, apparently. :) So what page are you trying to load? It obviously doesn't

Re: [PHP] Sessions

2004-03-16 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem. When I log into a forum it says Page Cannot Be Displayed I looked at my logs and did not find anything. Your immediate problem is that you're using IE. Use another browser, and you should get a more informative error message. Chris

RE: [PHP] Sessions

2004-03-16 Thread Will
It was a link problem!!! :) DUH What a dummy I am! :) ~WILL~ -Original Message- From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:38 PM To: Will Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Sessions Will wrote: Hello All, I am having a problem. When I

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS SESSIONS SESSIONS

2004-03-12 Thread Jason Davidson
http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alberto_Garc=EDa_G=F3mez?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends: I need a good example to create a session and navigate an entire site with this sessions. Also I need that sessions handle a three variables.

Re: [PHP] sessions timeout

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Davey
Hello André, Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 10:53:35 PM, you wrote: AVL I'm using sessions to manage users, by using cookies to store the AVL session. AVL My question is, how do I make the session last _forever_? AVL ATM the session lasts 'till the user closes the browser. Ok first of all - you cannot

Re: [PHP] sessions timeout

2004-03-09 Thread André Ventura Lemos
But my question is, since I don't deal with cookies directly (PHP does that for me), 'cause I only have to deal with sessions, how can I change the cookies produced by PHP? atm I only session_start() and use the $_SESSION[''], so I don't really know which cookie to change, or how to do it. TIA

Re: [PHP] Sessions, sessions and... sessions

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Puiu, Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 11:13:07 AM, you wrote: PH The site is working just fine on the development server, but when PH uploading on release server it keeps losing session data and the PH users are logged out of their account in a Some things to try/think about: 1. Are your

RE: [PHP] Sessions, sessions and... sessions

2004-03-02 Thread electroteque
all i can think of here, you could be calling start_session twice in the same page ? also init set the session timeout to an hour or so -Original Message- From: Puiu Hrenciuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Sessions,

Re: [PHP] Sessions, sessions and... sessions

2004-03-02 Thread Puiu Hrenciuc
1. No. If that would be the problem i think that sessions would expire after the same period of time and not randomly , right ? 2. The site consists in a single page (index.php) that includes the subpages as needed. The session_start() is at the begining of the file. If this would

Re: [PHP] Sessions, sessions and... sessions

2004-03-02 Thread Puiu Hrenciuc
the session_start() is in a file that is require_once in every page, so it can't get called more than one time. If this would be the problem, I would also have problems on the development server, don't you think ? Electroteque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] all i can

Re: [PHP] Sessions, sessions and... sessions

2004-03-02 Thread Michal Migurski
I am a little desperate right now since I have tried to solve this problem for 3-4 days now. I have developed a site that uses sessions for user authentication and data storage between page access. The development server is Apache1.3.24/MySQL4.1.0/PHP4.3.3/Win XP Pro The release server is

[PHP] Re: PHP Sessions

2004-02-29 Thread Andre Cerqueira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 if you try, i think you will see that you can Paul Higgins wrote: Hello everyone, I'm beginning to experiment with PHP sessions. I was wondering if it is possible to place objects into the session? Thanks, Paul

RE: [PHP] Sessions on Win2k

2004-02-11 Thread Alex Hogan
Session_start() has to be the first thing at the top of the page before anything else. Even header info. I just got this answered for me about two weeks ago -Original Message- From: Donpro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:20 AM To: php list

RE: [PHP] Sessions on Win2k

2004-02-11 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 February 2004 16:39, Alex Hogan contributed these pearls of wisdom: Session_start() has to be the first thing at the top of the page before anything else. Even header info. Er, no. session_start() itself generates headers, so it doesn't matter whether it goes before or after other

RE: [PHP] Sessions on Win2k

2004-02-11 Thread Alex Hogan
] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:00 AM To: 'Alex Hogan'; php list Subject: RE: [PHP] Sessions on Win2k On 11 February 2004 16:39, Alex Hogan contributed these pearls of wisdom: Session_start() has to be the first thing at the top of the page before anything else. Even header info

Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. MySQL records?

2004-02-03 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 00:05, Brian Dunning wrote: I have an application where I want users to only be allowed 5 searches per day unless they create an account. Unless you require that a user logs in before they can perform a search then there is no meaningful way to track how many

Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. MySQL records?

2004-02-03 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
Hi, By sessions i assume you mean cookies (session information can be stored in other places such as a mysql database). If you do store the information in a cookie, your visitors can easily delete the cooky and get past your protection mechanism. Having said that opting for a mysql table that

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