RE: [PHP] Session troubles
On 03 February 2004 21:20, DL contributed these pearls of wisdom: Hi all, I am using PHP v4.12, and here is the scenario. Which OS are you on? I seem to remember that a bug in 4.1.2 meant that sessions were write only on one particular group of OS -- but I can no longer remember whether it was *n*x or Windoze. (Or was that in PHP 4.2.1? -- like I said, it was the dim-and-distant past! ;) A search in the archives might tell you, but as 4.1.2 is now well out of date why not just upgrade? Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
I know I may be displaying severe ignorance, but I have to ask... What do you mean by this page also uses paging? What is paging? Larry -Original Message- From: DL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Session troubles Hi all, I am using PHP v4.12, and here is the scenario. I have one page, index.php with a form that has a searchfield (dropdown) and searchcriteria (textbox). When submitted I want to populate two session variables with the form values of searchfield and searchcriteria. This page also uses paging, and whenever I click next, my session variables seem to die. I have globals turned on. So basically, we the page initially loads I display all the results from a db query. Paging works fine. If someone submits the form, I want to populate two session variables and build a new sql statment based on the user input. Clickling next or previous should retain the same search results until the user submits the form again or those session variables expire. Help please. Cheers, David -- 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] Session troubles
Hi Sean ! I had the same problem... this can be resolved using the function session_write_close() at the end of each script you use sessions. It will force PHP to call the write and close function. In some combinations of PHP version, Apache and OS, this problem doesn't happens, but as you, I had this problem too.. :) Put this function in yours PHP scripts and see if now them will work. Here is an exemple of a test script: ?php error_reporting( E_ALL ); ini_set(session.save_handler,user); include( ./mysession.php ); where is my session functions declareted to use database... session_start(); ? html head titleMySQL Session Management: Second Page/title /head body ?php print( SESSION User: $aUserbr ); print( SESSION Account: $aAccountbr ); $aUser = Katie; $aAccount = 2026; print( CHANGED User: $aUserbr ); print( CHANGED Account: $aAccountbr ); session_write_close(); ? /body /html Cheers, _ Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee Bowne Global Solutions Phone +55 21 2515 7713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bowneglobal.com.br -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote: I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session starting if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?Then it could spit out a more correct error message. Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works, if I change save_handler back to file instead of user. As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do this outlined somewhere? -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote: Sean, From your php error_log, it's saying the following: Failed to write session data (user) which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If not, make sure your php.ini file has: session.save_handler = files And *NOT*: session.save_handler = user That will make a big difference. Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back. Thanks, it works now! Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working... It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW... -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ricardo,
I've had some strange problems with session writing, but they always
returned back to the fact that return false was being used in the
session read function. PHP 4.0.6 wouldn't write out sessions when
register_globals was set to off when you were using return false. PHP
4.1.0 crashes with signal 11 after a bit when using return false.
I've filed a couple of bug reports with the request that this be fixed.
I believe a patch is either being worked on or already submitted, but
I'm not positive.
Sean's problem is that he's using return false in his session read
function. The session read function should return a blank value ('')
and not false when there's no data. This was never clear in the
documentation (and complaint I made) but is quite true. Once switching
over to using ('') instead of (false), I no longer had problems.
Jaime Bozza
-Original Message-
From: Junior, Ricardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Hi Sean !
I had the same problem... this can be resolved using the function
session_write_close() at the end of each script you use sessions. It
will force PHP to call the write and close function.
In some combinations of PHP version, Apache and OS, this problem doesn't
happens, but as you, I had this problem too.. :)
Put this function in yours PHP scripts and see if now them will work.
Here is an exemple of a test script:
?php
error_reporting( E_ALL );
ini_set(session.save_handler,user);
include( ./mysession.php ); where is my session
functions
declareted to use database...
session_start();
?
html
head
titleMySQL Session Management: Second Page/title
/head
body
?php
print( SESSION User: $aUserbr );
print( SESSION Account: $aAccountbr );
$aUser = Katie;
$aAccount = 2026;
print( CHANGED User: $aUserbr );
print( CHANGED Account: $aAccountbr );
session_write_close();
?
/body
/html
Cheers,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote:
I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session
starting
if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?
Then
it could spit out a more correct error message.
Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My
session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and
session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works,
if I change save_handler back to file instead of user.
As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do
this outlined somewhere?
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote:
Sean,
From your php error_log, it's saying the following:
Failed to write session data (user)
which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined
session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If
not, make sure your php.ini file has:
session.save_handler = files
And *NOT*:
session.save_handler = user
That will make a big difference.
Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying
to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and
was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back.
Thanks, it works now!
Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working...
It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW...
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote:
Sean --
Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What
ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs
PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib
to handle sessions? -- David Jackson
--- sean.php ---
?php include(seaninc.php); ?
--- seaninc.php --
?php
session_start();
session_register(i);
$i++;
echo $i;
?
I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of
standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)?
Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to
be
sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up
asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error:
Fatal error: Failed
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ok Jaime. I've imagine that he had the same problem that I have had before..
:)
I'm really returning a ' in my read function when there is no data too...
because of this I don't had the problem related by Sean...
Thanks,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Jaime Bozza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ricardo,
I've had some strange problems with session writing, but they always
returned back to the fact that return false was being used in the
session read function. PHP 4.0.6 wouldn't write out sessions when
register_globals was set to off when you were using return false. PHP
4.1.0 crashes with signal 11 after a bit when using return false.
I've filed a couple of bug reports with the request that this be fixed.
I believe a patch is either being worked on or already submitted, but
I'm not positive.
Sean's problem is that he's using return false in his session read
function. The session read function should return a blank value ('')
and not false when there's no data. This was never clear in the
documentation (and complaint I made) but is quite true. Once switching
over to using ('') instead of (false), I no longer had problems.
Jaime Bozza
-Original Message-
From: Junior, Ricardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Hi Sean !
I had the same problem... this can be resolved using the function
session_write_close() at the end of each script you use sessions. It
will force PHP to call the write and close function.
In some combinations of PHP version, Apache and OS, this problem doesn't
happens, but as you, I had this problem too.. :)
Put this function in yours PHP scripts and see if now them will work.
Here is an exemple of a test script:
?php
error_reporting( E_ALL );
ini_set(session.save_handler,user);
include( ./mysession.php ); where is my session
functions
declareted to use database...
session_start();
?
html
head
titleMySQL Session Management: Second Page/title
/head
body
?php
print( SESSION User: $aUserbr );
print( SESSION Account: $aAccountbr );
$aUser = Katie;
$aAccount = 2026;
print( CHANGED User: $aUserbr );
print( CHANGED Account: $aAccountbr );
session_write_close();
?
/body
/html
Cheers,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote:
I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session
starting
if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?
Then
it could spit out a more correct error message.
Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My
session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and
session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works,
if I change save_handler back to file instead of user.
As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do
this outlined somewhere?
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote:
Sean,
From your php error_log, it's saying the following:
Failed to write session data (user)
which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined
session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If
not, make sure your php.ini file has:
session.save_handler = files
And *NOT*:
session.save_handler = user
That will make a big difference.
Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying
to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and
was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back.
Thanks, it works now!
Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working...
It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW...
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote:
Sean --
Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What
ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs
PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Hmmm... So, there are yet more problems with the session functions. :)
Are you using 4.1.1 or 4.0.6?
Jaime
-Original Message-
From: Junior, Ricardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:34 AM
To: 'Jaime Bozza'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ok Jaime. I've imagine that he had the same problem that I have had
before..
:)
I'm really returning a ' in my read function when there is no data
too... because of this I don't had the problem related by Sean...
Thanks,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Jaime Bozza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ricardo,
I've had some strange problems with session writing, but they always
returned back to the fact that return false was being used in the
session read function. PHP 4.0.6 wouldn't write out sessions when
register_globals was set to off when you were using return false. PHP
4.1.0 crashes with signal 11 after a bit when using return false. I've
filed a couple of bug reports with the request that this be fixed. I
believe a patch is either being worked on or already submitted, but I'm
not positive.
Sean's problem is that he's using return false in his session read
function. The session read function should return a blank value ('')
and not false when there's no data. This was never clear in the
documentation (and complaint I made) but is quite true. Once switching
over to using ('') instead of (false), I no longer had problems.
Jaime Bozza
-Original Message-
From: Junior, Ricardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Hi Sean !
I had the same problem... this can be resolved using the function
session_write_close() at the end of each script you use sessions. It
will force PHP to call the write and close function.
In some combinations of PHP version, Apache and OS, this problem doesn't
happens, but as you, I had this problem too.. :)
Put this function in yours PHP scripts and see if now them will work.
Here is an exemple of a test script:
?php
error_reporting( E_ALL );
ini_set(session.save_handler,user);
include( ./mysession.php ); where is my session
functions
declareted to use database...
session_start();
?
html
head
titleMySQL Session Management: Second Page/title
/head
body
?php
print( SESSION User: $aUserbr );
print( SESSION Account: $aAccountbr );
$aUser = Katie;
$aAccount = 2026;
print( CHANGED User: $aUserbr );
print( CHANGED Account: $aAccountbr );
session_write_close();
?
/body
/html
Cheers,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote:
I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session
starting
if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?
Then
it could spit out a more correct error message.
Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My
session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and
session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works,
if I change save_handler back to file instead of user.
As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do
this outlined somewhere?
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote:
Sean,
From your php error_log, it's saying the following:
Failed to write session data (user)
which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined
session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If
not, make sure your php.ini file has:
session.save_handler = files
And *NOT*:
session.save_handler = user
That will make a big difference.
Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying
to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and
was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back.
Thanks, it works now!
Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working...
It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW...
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 29
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
FYI - I can confirm Jaime's assertion. I too had the exact same issue
with the exact same fix.
-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
net] On Behalf Of Jaime Bozza
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ricardo,
I've had some strange problems with session writing, but
they always returned back to the fact that return false was
being used in the session read function. PHP 4.0.6 wouldn't
write out sessions when register_globals was set to off when
you were using return false. PHP 4.1.0 crashes with signal
11 after a bit when using return false. I've filed a couple
of bug reports with the request that this be fixed. I believe
a patch is either being worked on or already submitted, but
I'm not positive.
Sean's problem is that he's using return false in his
session read function. The session read function should
return a blank value ('') and not false when there's no data.
This was never clear in the documentation (and complaint I
made) but is quite true. Once switching over to using ('')
instead of (false), I no longer had problems.
Jaime Bozza
-Original Message-
From: Junior, Ricardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Hi Sean !
I had the same problem... this can be resolved using the
function session_write_close() at the end of each script
you use sessions. It will force PHP to call the write and
close function.
In some combinations of PHP version, Apache and OS, this
problem doesn't happens, but as you, I had this problem too.. :)
Put this function in yours PHP scripts and see if now them will work.
Here is an exemple of a test script:
?php
error_reporting( E_ALL );
ini_set(session.save_handler,user);
include( ./mysession.php ); where is my session
functions
declareted to use database...
session_start();
?
html
head
titleMySQL Session Management: Second Page/title
/head
body
?php
print( SESSION User: $aUserbr );
print( SESSION Account: $aAccountbr );
$aUser = Katie;
$aAccount = 2026;
print( CHANGED User: $aUserbr );
print( CHANGED Account: $aAccountbr );
session_write_close();
?
/body
/html
Cheers,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote:
I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session
starting
if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?
Then
it could spit out a more correct error message.
Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to
work. My session handler's write never gets called; only my
session_open and session_read get calledthe default file
session handler still works, if I change save_handler back to
file instead of user.
As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a
mechanism to do this outlined somewhere?
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote:
Sean,
From your php error_log, it's saying the following:
Failed to write session data (user)
which sounds like it's having problems writing to the
user-defined
session handler. Are you using a user-defined session
handler? If
not, make sure your php.ini file has:
session.save_handler = files
And *NOT*:
session.save_handler = user
That will make a big difference.
Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I
was trying
to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped
back and
was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o
changing it back.
Thanks, it works now!
Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working...
It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for
this, BTW...
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote:
Sean --
Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked
for me. What
ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs
PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib
to handle sessions? -- David Jackson
--- sean.php ---
?php
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
I was using 4.06 version... but I don't test this issues with 4.1 version in
my system (linux Mandrake 8.1)...
I will test and let you know! :)
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Jaime Bozza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Hmmm... So, there are yet more problems with the session functions. :)
Are you using 4.1.1 or 4.0.6?
Jaime
-Original Message-
From: Junior, Ricardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:34 AM
To: 'Jaime Bozza'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ok Jaime. I've imagine that he had the same problem that I have had
before..
:)
I'm really returning a ' in my read function when there is no data
too... because of this I don't had the problem related by Sean...
Thanks,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Jaime Bozza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ricardo,
I've had some strange problems with session writing, but they always
returned back to the fact that return false was being used in the
session read function. PHP 4.0.6 wouldn't write out sessions when
register_globals was set to off when you were using return false. PHP
4.1.0 crashes with signal 11 after a bit when using return false. I've
filed a couple of bug reports with the request that this be fixed. I
believe a patch is either being worked on or already submitted, but I'm
not positive.
Sean's problem is that he's using return false in his session read
function. The session read function should return a blank value ('')
and not false when there's no data. This was never clear in the
documentation (and complaint I made) but is quite true. Once switching
over to using ('') instead of (false), I no longer had problems.
Jaime Bozza
-Original Message-
From: Junior, Ricardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Hi Sean !
I had the same problem... this can be resolved using the function
session_write_close() at the end of each script you use sessions. It
will force PHP to call the write and close function.
In some combinations of PHP version, Apache and OS, this problem doesn't
happens, but as you, I had this problem too.. :)
Put this function in yours PHP scripts and see if now them will work.
Here is an exemple of a test script:
?php
error_reporting( E_ALL );
ini_set(session.save_handler,user);
include( ./mysession.php ); where is my session
functions
declareted to use database...
session_start();
?
html
head
titleMySQL Session Management: Second Page/title
/head
body
?php
print( SESSION User: $aUserbr );
print( SESSION Account: $aAccountbr );
$aUser = Katie;
$aAccount = 2026;
print( CHANGED User: $aUserbr );
print( CHANGED Account: $aAccountbr );
session_write_close();
?
/body
/html
Cheers,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote:
I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session
starting
if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?
Then
it could spit out a more correct error message.
Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My
session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and
session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works,
if I change save_handler back to file instead of user.
As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do
this outlined somewhere?
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote:
Sean,
From your php error_log, it's saying the following:
Failed to write session data (user)
which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined
session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If
not, make sure your php.ini file has:
session.save_handler = files
And *NOT*:
session.save_handler = user
That will make a big
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
This was problem that I had: the function write was not been called by PHP
sessions functions when a script finish or when I change the variable
contents.
Searching on PHP.net I saw this solution there: add a call to function
session_write_close() at the end of the php code.
This should be another problem with Sessions functions... but I need to test
this with PHP 4.1...
Thanks,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Alok K. Dhir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 12:56 PM
To: 'Jaime Bozza'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [PHP] Session troubles
FYI - I can confirm Jaime's assertion. I too had the exact same issue
with the exact same fix.
-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
net] On Behalf Of Jaime Bozza
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Ricardo,
I've had some strange problems with session writing, but
they always returned back to the fact that return false was
being used in the session read function. PHP 4.0.6 wouldn't
write out sessions when register_globals was set to off when
you were using return false. PHP 4.1.0 crashes with signal
11 after a bit when using return false. I've filed a couple
of bug reports with the request that this be fixed. I believe
a patch is either being worked on or already submitted, but
I'm not positive.
Sean's problem is that he's using return false in his
session read function. The session read function should
return a blank value ('') and not false when there's no data.
This was never clear in the documentation (and complaint I
made) but is quite true. Once switching over to using ('')
instead of (false), I no longer had problems.
Jaime Bozza
-Original Message-
From: Junior, Ricardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Hi Sean !
I had the same problem... this can be resolved using the
function session_write_close() at the end of each script
you use sessions. It will force PHP to call the write and
close function.
In some combinations of PHP version, Apache and OS, this
problem doesn't happens, but as you, I had this problem too.. :)
Put this function in yours PHP scripts and see if now them will work.
Here is an exemple of a test script:
?php
error_reporting( E_ALL );
ini_set(session.save_handler,user);
include( ./mysession.php ); where is my session
functions
declareted to use database...
session_start();
?
html
head
titleMySQL Session Management: Second Page/title
/head
body
?php
print( SESSION User: $aUserbr );
print( SESSION Account: $aAccountbr );
$aUser = Katie;
$aAccount = 2026;
print( CHANGED User: $aUserbr );
print( CHANGED Account: $aAccountbr );
session_write_close();
?
/body
/html
Cheers,
_
Ricardo J. A. Júnior, Software Engineer Trainee
Bowne Global Solutions
Phone +55 21 2515 7713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bowneglobal.com.br
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote:
I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session
starting
if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?
Then
it could spit out a more correct error message.
Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to
work. My session handler's write never gets called; only my
session_open and session_read get calledthe default file
session handler still works, if I change save_handler back to
file instead of user.
As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a
mechanism to do this outlined somewhere?
-Original Message-
From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote:
Sean,
From your php error_log, it's saying the following:
Failed to write session data (user)
which sounds like it's having problems writing to the
user-defined
session handler. Are you using a user-defined session
handler? If
not, make sure your php.ini file has:
session.save_handler = files
And *NOT*:
session.save_handler = user
That will make a big difference.
Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I
was trying
to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped
back and
was just
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 16:06, Jaime Bozza wrote: Returning false is invalid for the session read function, and has caused *MANY* issues with PHP and Sessions. (Check the archives as well as the bugs database. I have a couple in there myself) Change: return false; To: return ''; And things should start working as expected. As near as I can tell, things *are* working, but I'll change it to return the ''. What an odd thing to require - I guess it's because it is expecting a string in the true case. I've noticed that for the most part, PHP allows you to do things very easily, is very extensible, and yet, for something so (relatively) new, it has a lot of well, ugly, features like this. I don't mean to knock the whole project, as it's very cool, and I'm sure very hard work to maintain - but DB access is pretty weird, and the calls vary across DBs - I ended up coding a bit of my own thin layer to generically call DB functions, and not have to worry about mysql_foo, pgsql_foo, etc. It seems that it would be pretty easy to have that as part of the language. It's rough edges and strange issues like that that just make me scratch my head. Every single language I've worked with has them (what I call isms - Java-isms, PowerBuilder-isms, C-isms - I can usually become productive with the core of a language pretty quickly - usually inside of a week, as any good programmer can, but the isms can be the part that take a few months to get right - try telling any HR person/hiring manager that, and you won't get far, though. :) They still want X years of Y, W years of Z, rather than doing some simple aptitude type of testing, or going on recommendations, nah, let's just scan resume for keywords and time periods...no wonder they claimed they couldn't find people before the recession.), but PHP just seems to have some really weird ones that you think would be easily remedied. That being said, doing session type stuff in PHP is still a ton easier and more intuitive, IMHO, than mod_perl or some Java app servers. Also, since it's a built-in, it's rare that from project to project it will vary. Even when there are best practices for things like this in a language/environment, I still seem to inherit code where people go skipping down the bunny trail doing some weird and buggy stuff because they didn't know what they were doing - when it's built in, that's less likely to happen. The db layer I mentioned above would prevent just this sort of thing - maybe this is already a planned feature? -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. -Charles Babbage (contributed by Chris Johnston) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session starting if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?Then it could spit out a more correct error message. Jaime Bozza -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote: Sean, From your php error_log, it's saying the following: Failed to write session data (user) which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If not, make sure your php.ini file has: session.save_handler = files And *NOT*: session.save_handler = user That will make a big difference. Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back. Thanks, it works now! Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working... It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW... -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles session_set_save_handler at the end. What happens is I get an error because it is trying to read the variable out and I get a DB error, but my session writing routine is never called...I know, because I have a print in there. And of course, the var doesn't increment upon refreshes - it remains 1. I've seen this before, and it was fixed, but I forget how it was done, as I didn't actually implement the solution (I hear and I forget, I do and I remember, I guess). About my system
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote: I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session starting if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler?Then it could spit out a more correct error message. Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works, if I change save_handler back to file instead of user. As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do this outlined somewhere? -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote: Sean, From your php error_log, it's saying the following: Failed to write session data (user) which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If not, make sure your php.ini file has: session.save_handler = files And *NOT*: session.save_handler = user That will make a big difference. Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back. Thanks, it works now! Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working... It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW... -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
What do you have for the return values for your session_read function? (Specifically, what do you return when there's no data available?) Jaime Bozza -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote: I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session starting if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler? Then it could spit out a more correct error message. Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works, if I change save_handler back to file instead of user. As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do this outlined somewhere? -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote: Sean, From your php error_log, it's saying the following: Failed to write session data (user) which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If not, make sure your php.ini file has: session.save_handler = files And *NOT*: session.save_handler = user That will make a big difference. Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back. Thanks, it works now! Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working... It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW... -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 01-02 14:31, Jaime Bozza wrote: What do you have for the return values for your session_read function? (Specifically, what do you return when there's no data available?) Well, it turns out that write *is* being called, but due to some feature of session write, echo and print don't work, as I read on bugs.php.net. So I put a file-writing mechanism in there and I see it is being called and what was happening. I was trying to do an insert all the time, due to bad logic, so it was cycling to 2, then stopping. Now it seems to work properly. :) As for the session read, I return false when no value is found. Jaime Bozza -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote: I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session starting if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler? Then it could spit out a more correct error message. Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works, if I change save_handler back to file instead of user. As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do this outlined somewhere? -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote: Sean, From your php error_log, it's saying the following: Failed to write session data (user) which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If not, make sure your php.ini file has: session.save_handler = files And *NOT*: session.save_handler = user That will make a big difference. Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back. Thanks, it works now! Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working... It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW... -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code
RE: [PHP] Session troubles
Returning false is invalid for the session read function, and has caused *MANY* issues with PHP and Sessions. (Check the archives as well as the bugs database. I have a couple in there myself) Change: return false; To: return ''; And things should start working as expected. Jaime Bozza -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 01-02 14:31, Jaime Bozza wrote: What do you have for the return values for your session_read function? (Specifically, what do you return when there's no data available?) Well, it turns out that write *is* being called, but due to some feature of session write, echo and print don't work, as I read on bugs.php.net. So I put a file-writing mechanism in there and I see it is being called and what was happening. I was trying to do an insert all the time, due to bad logic, so it was cycling to 2, then stopping. Now it seems to work properly. :) As for the session read, I return false when no value is found. Jaime Bozza -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 01-02 07:45, Jaime Bozza wrote: I agree. Perhaps make a feature request that disallows session starting if save_handler=user and you haven't defined a session handler? Then it could spit out a more correct error message. Blast. I am still unable to get my own session handler to work. My session handler's write never gets called; only my session_open and session_read get calledthe default file session handler still works, if I change save_handler back to file instead of user. As for the feature request, I guess I could - is there a mechanism to do this outlined somewhere? -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote: Sean, From your php error_log, it's saying the following: Failed to write session data (user) which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If not, make sure your php.ini file has: session.save_handler = files And *NOT*: session.save_handler = user That will make a big difference. Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back. Thanks, it works now! Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working... It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW... -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-31 09:23, Jaime Bozza wrote: Sean, From your php error_log, it's saying the following: Failed to write session data (user) which sounds like it's having problems writing to the user-defined session handler. Are you using a user-defined session handler? If not, make sure your php.ini file has: session.save_handler = files And *NOT*: session.save_handler = user That will make a big difference. Good eye. That was it. I *did* have it as user because I was trying to do my own user-defined session handler, and then stepped back and was just trying to get the simpler case to work, w/o changing it back. Thanks, it works now! Now, I just need to see if I can get my session_handler working... It's too bad the error message isn't more descriptive for this, BTW... -Original Message- From: Sean LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Session troubles On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles session_set_save_handler at the end. What happens is I get an error because it is trying to read the variable out and I get a DB error, but my session writing routine is never called...I know, because I have a print in there. And of course, the var doesn't increment upon refreshes - it remains 1. I've seen this before, and it was fixed, but I forget how it was done, as I didn't actually implement the solution (I hear and I forget, I do and I remember, I guess). About my system: FreeBSD 4.4 Apache 1.3.20 PHP 4.0.6 Any and all help appreciated. -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome One learns to itch where one can scratch. -Ernest Bramah Management QOTD:Get hopping on the domain expertise!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-29 22:27, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Does you standard (non session) seem to work ok? Such as: ?php // basic echo of var from form echo We've just echoed var from form\n; echo p$stuff/p; echo h2$more_stuff/h2; echo h3$still_more_stuff/h3; ? Yes, this works fine. I should have said that before... Did you compile Apache and PHP from source? If so could you provide me with the ./configure --options you used? This is sound like a config/compile problem to me. This is what phpinfo() reports for PHP: './configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc' '--enable-versioning' '--with-system-regex' '--disable-debug' '--enable-track-vars' '--without-gd' '--without-mysql' '--enable-session' '--with-zlib' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--with-pgsql=/usr/local' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-session' '--prefix=/usr/local' 'i386--freebsd4.4' I built PHP from the FreeBSD ports collection. When I ran make, in the menu that comes up, I selected transparent session, among other options. As for Apache...I forget how I installed it. It doesn't appear that I built it from the ports section, so it was either via a package or a tarball - so I'm doing it from ports right now to be sure. We'll see how that goes. You might also want to cross-post to linux-admin mail list? I'm using FreeBSD. :) I may post to one of the FreeBSD lists eventually, but they can sometimes get irritatable when it's not on-topic... -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. -Charles Horton Cooley Management QOTD:It's an orthogonal issue to identify the core product families and staff appropriately for the process innovation, etc. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles session_set_save_handler at the end. What happens is I get an error because it is trying to read the variable out and I get a DB error, but my session writing routine is never called...I know, because I have a print in there. And of course, the var doesn't increment upon refreshes - it remains 1. I've seen this before, and it was fixed, but I forget how it was done, as I didn't actually implement the solution (I hear and I forget, I do and I remember, I guess). About my system: FreeBSD 4.4 Apache 1.3.20 PHP 4.0.6 Any and all help appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles session_set_save_handler at the end. What happens is I get an error because it is trying to read the variable out and I get a DB error, but my session writing routine is never called...I know, because I have a print in there. And of course, the var doesn't increment upon refreshes - it remains 1. I've seen this before, and it was fixed, but I forget how it was done, as I didn't actually implement the solution (I hear and I forget, I do and I remember, I guess). About my system: FreeBSD 4.4 Apache 1.3.20 PHP 4.0.6 Any and all help appreciated. -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome One learns to itch where one can scratch. -Ernest Bramah Management QOTD:Get hopping on the domain expertise!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles session_set_save_handler at the end. What happens is I get an error because it is trying to read the variable out and I get a DB error, but my session writing routine is never called...I know, because I have a print in there. And of course, the var doesn't increment upon refreshes - it remains 1. I've seen this before, and it was fixed, but I forget how it was done, as I didn't actually implement the solution (I hear and I forget, I do and I remember, I guess). About my system: FreeBSD 4.4 Apache 1.3.20 PHP 4.0.6 Any and all help appreciated. -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome One learns to itch where one can scratch. -Ernest Bramah Management QOTD:Get hopping on the domain expertise!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles session_set_save_handler at the end. What happens is I get an error because it is trying to read the variable out and I get a DB error, but my session writing routine is never called...I know, because I have a print in there. And of course, the var doesn't increment upon refreshes - it remains 1. I've seen this before, and it was fixed, but I forget how it was done, as I didn't actually implement the solution (I hear and I forget, I do and I remember, I guess). About my system: FreeBSD 4.4 Apache 1.3.20 PHP 4.0.6 Any and all help appreciated. -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome One learns to itch where one can scratch. -Ernest Bramah Management QOTD:Get hopping on the domain expertise!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished? -Hasse Skrifvars Management QOTD:Work out a solution that fits with problem management!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
Sean -- Do you get the same errors, with Netscape 4.x? On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles session_set_save_handler at the end. What happens is I get an error because it is trying to read the variable out and I get a DB error, but my session writing routine is never called...I know, because I have a print in there. And of course, the var doesn't increment upon refreshes - it remains 1. I've seen this before, and it was fixed, but I forget how it was done, as I didn't actually implement the solution (I hear and I forget, I do and I remember, I guess). About my system: FreeBSD 4.4 Apache 1.3.20 PHP 4.0.6 Any and all help appreciated. -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome One learns to itch where one can scratch. -Ernest Bramah Management QOTD:Get hopping on the domain expertise!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished? -Hasse Skrifvars Management QOTD:Work out a solution that fits with problem management!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-29 15:10, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Do you get the same errors, with Netscape 4.x? Yep. The very same. I've tried Galeon, Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, and Konqueror. They all result in the same error. On 12-29 12:56, David Jackson wrote: Sean -- Don't know if this help but here's what I just worked for me. What ver. of PHP are you using? It seem to me that 3.x.x needs PHPLIB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib to handle sessions? -- David Jackson --- sean.php --- ?php include(seaninc.php); ? --- seaninc.php -- ?php session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; ? I'm using 4.0.6. I believe session handling was added as part of standard 4.x, right (if configured to compile it)? Some more info: I tried with Konqueror, as I know a cookie needs to be sent during the session_start() phase - I did get a dialog pop-up asking if I wanted to accept the cookie, but I still got the error: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 It says line 2 because I deleted some white space and commented out code thas was before session_start(). I set logging errors on, and sent it to syslog. Here's what it says: Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 2 Dec 29 12:12:57 free httpd: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (user). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 But /tmp exists, and is world writeable: free# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 1024 Dec 29 12:14 /tmp On 12-29 09:59, Miles Thompson wrote: Sean, What's going on in incl.php. Are you issuing a session_start()? No, I was not. What if it's rearranged like so, as I understand you have to register the session variable before using it. include(incl.php); session_start(); session_register(mine); $mine++; echo $mine; No dice, either. Actually, I had tried several permutations of the order before posting. :) There's the divide and conquer approach too. What do you see if you comment out the include, then issue a phpinfo() and a die()? Okay, I tried commenting out include, resulting in this code: session_start(); session_register(i); $i++; echo $i; When I run the above, I get this: Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sesstest.php on line 6 Which is getting somewhere, in a way. Line 6 is session_start(); What part from phpinfo() output were you interested in? Or did you want to see all of it? Thanks for the help. HTH and Merry Christmas / Happy New Year - Miles Thompson On Friday 28 December 2001 11:26 pm, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I asked this on php-install list, but got no response so here goes... I simply cannot get session to work correctly. Here's the test script: include(incl.php); session_start(); $mine++; session_register(mine); echo $mine; incl.php includes code to save/retrieve session information to/from DB. It calles session_set_save_handler at the end. What happens is I get an error because it is trying to read the variable out and I get a DB error, but my session writing routine is never called...I know, because I have a print in there. And of course, the var doesn't increment upon refreshes - it remains 1. I've seen this before, and it was fixed, but I forget how it was done, as I didn't actually implement the solution (I hear and I forget, I do and I remember, I guess). About my system: FreeBSD 4.4 Apache 1.3.20 PHP 4.0.6 Any and all help appreciated. -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome One learns to itch where one can scratch. -Ernest Bramah Management QOTD:Get hopping on the domain expertise!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished? -Hasse Skrifvars Management QOTD:Work out a solution that fits with problem management!!
Re: [PHP] Session troubles
Sean --
Give the attached scripts a shot, a post the results.
Note: Xitami(server+WinMe) + IE5.5 or Mozilla 9.7 works
fine but with Netscape-4.9 it returns var names? But
when served from Unix/Linux and Apache all 3 work as expected !!
Anywhy give them shot. -- David
--- form.html ---
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd;
html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml;
head
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 /
titleNo title/title
meta name=GENERATOR content=amaya 5.2 /
/head
body
form method=post action=form.php
pinput type=text size=20 name=stuff //p
pinput type=text size=20 name=more_stuff //p
pinput type=text size=20 name=still_more_stuff //p
pinput type=submit value=Submit //p
pinput type=reset value=Reset //p
/form
/body
/html
--- form.php
?php
// sessions on 48 N. Random Rd.
session_start();
session_register('Green');
session_register('Yellow');
session_register('Red');
$Green = $stuff;
$Yellow = $more_stuff;
$Red = $still_more_stuff;
// basic echo of var from form
echo We've just echoed var from form\n;
echo p$Green/p;
echo h2$Yellow/h2;
echo h3$Red/h3;
echo pa href=\form02.php\Verify that session_vars were
passwd/a/p;
// Get out of here
?
--- form02.php -
?php
session_start();
// sessions on 48 N. Random Rd.
// basic echo of var from form
echo htmlheadtitle/title/head;
echo body;
echo h2session_registers:;
echo pGreen:$Green/p;
echo pYellow:$Yellow/p;
echo pRed:$Red/p;
echo /body/html;
?
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Re: [PHP] Session troubles
On 12-29 16:46, David Jackson wrote:
Sean --
Give the attached scripts a shot, a post the results.
Note: Xitami(server+WinMe) + IE5.5 or Mozilla 9.7 works
fine but with Netscape-4.9 it returns var names? But
when served from Unix/Linux and Apache all 3 work as expected !!
Anywhy give them shot. -- David
I created and ran these. After hitting submit on form.html, I get this:
Fatal error: Failed to initialize session module in
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/form.php on line 3
--- form.html ---
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd;
html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml;
head
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 /
titleNo title/title
meta name=GENERATOR content=amaya 5.2 /
/head
body
form method=post action=form.php
pinput type=text size=20 name=stuff //p
pinput type=text size=20 name=more_stuff //p
pinput type=text size=20 name=still_more_stuff //p
pinput type=submit value=Submit //p
pinput type=reset value=Reset //p
/form
/body
/html
--- form.php
?php
// sessions on 48 N. Random Rd.
session_start();
session_register('Green');
session_register('Yellow');
session_register('Red');
$Green = $stuff;
$Yellow = $more_stuff;
$Red = $still_more_stuff;
// basic echo of var from form
echo We've just echoed var from form\n;
echo p$Green/p;
echo h2$Yellow/h2;
echo h3$Red/h3;
echo pa href=\form02.php\Verify that session_vars were
passwd/a/p;
// Get out of here
?
--- form02.php -
?php
session_start();
// sessions on 48 N. Random Rd.
// basic echo of var from form
echo htmlheadtitle/title/head;
echo body;
echo h2session_registers:;
echo pGreen:$Green/p;
echo pYellow:$Yellow/p;
echo pRed:$Red/p;
echo /body/html;
?
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Re: [PHP] Session troubles
Sean -- Does you standard (non session) seem to work ok? Such as: ?php // basic echo of var from form echo We've just echoed var from form\n; echo p$stuff/p; echo h2$more_stuff/h2; echo h3$still_more_stuff/h3; ? Did you compile Apache and PHP from source? If so could you provide me with the ./configure --options you used? This is sound like a config/compile problem to me. You might also want to cross-post to linux-admin mail list? -- David -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] session troubles
your session_start() has to be the first thing in the page. no blank lines etc. like ?php session_start(); include(db.inc); include(classes/user-class.inc); session_register(user); ? right at the top of your page. a blank line will send header info ... Steve -Original Message- From: Brad Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 July 2001 16:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] session troubles Hi all, Im new to this mailing list so im not sure what to expect from 'y'all' but i'm hoping this will be the beginning of a long and beautiful friendship. My question: i have a series of PHP4 pages that if I start a session (session_start()) on the first page (adminLogin.php), all is fine and dandy...all the session_resources get passed to the next page (login2.php) and i can get acccess to those session resources. Te problem is, at the top of the page a warning message is displayed: Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/e-smith/files/ibays/test/html/login2.php:1) in /home/e-smith/files/ibays/test/html/login2.php on line 1 What does this mean?? If i comment out the session_start() line, i dodnt get this message BUT i also dont get the session variuables i need. Hope Im making some sense, Hope someone can help. Thanks, Brad -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] session troubles
You must have some white space going out somewhere before your code/HTML starts, that you are unaware of. If you can't find it, you can always buffer up your output with ob_start() and put it out later... --- Brad Wright wrote: Hi all, Im new to this mailing list so im not sure what to expect from 'y'all' but i'm hoping this will be the beginning of a long and beautiful friendship. My question: i have a series of PHP4 pages that if I start a session (session_start()) on the first page (adminLogin.php), all is fine and dandy...all the session_resources get passed to the next page (login2.php) and i can get acccess to those session resources. Te problem is, at the top of the page a warning message is displayed: Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/e-smith/files/ibays/test/html/login2.php:1) in /home/e-smith/files/ibays/test/html/login2.php on line 1 What does this mean?? If i comment out the session_start() line, i dodnt get this message BUT i also dont get the session variuables i need. Hope Im making some sense, Hope someone can help. Thanks, Brad -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Justin Farnsworth Eye Integrated Communications 321 South Evans - Suite 203 Greenville, NC 27858 | Tel: (252) 353-0722 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
