It sounds like both applications are running on the same domain. If
that's not the case, something else is going on.
You have a couple of options, none of which might make you happy.
1) In your app, use a custom session name (session_name('MYSESSID')
before you call session_start()). You'll probably want to create a
directory that the webserver can write to, and set session_save_path.
This should work nicely, unless you need to share session data with
your colleage's appication.
If you do need both apps to access some shared session data, you're
stuck changing a bunch of references in code. However, a global find/
replace to replace $_SESSION with $_SESSION['someKey'] will probably
do the trick, and not be too painful.
Good luck.
-Tim
On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Christopher R. Merlo wrote:
Hi. I recently migrated my web app from my personal server to a
(*way* more powerful) shared server, where one of my colleagues also
hosts his app. Both were written in PHP. Due to neither one of us
having run into this before, if you are logged in to both apps at
the same time from the same browser (which happens; we share more
than a few students in common), and log out of one, you get logged
out of the other. In my code, the logout routine is as follows:
foreach( $_SESSION as $key=>$value ) {
unset( $_SESSION[ $key ] );
}
And his code is essentially the same (I think he might use a
session_destroy() or something).
I know that if I add a layer to $_SESSION, like creating
$_SESSION[ 'my_app' ][ keys... ], and then only unset those upon
logout, I will prevent my students from logging out of any app other
than my own. But that's a lot of code to change (not the logout
code, that's easy; but all the places I check to see if someone's
logged in) and besides, I imagine there has to be a better way.
Please pretend that using a different physical or virtual server is
not possible, because it's essentially not (yay county budget!), so:
what's the PHP way to solve this problem? Is there some way we can
namespace-ize our $_SESSION variables or something?
Thanks,
-Chris
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