#40274 [Com]: Sessions fail with numeric root keys

ID: 40274 Comment by: jhansen at unitedmcgill dot com Reported By: ben at vanilla dot net Status: Assigned Bug Type: Session related Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2 PHP Version: 5.2.0 Assigned To: iliaa New Comment: I had a similar issue on a gentoo box (I could not make changes to session variables), and came across this blog post: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/ramon/archive/2006/10/27/Weird-php-session-behaviour.aspx Sure enough, turning off register globals fixed the problem for me. iliaa: Could this be related? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-29 13:48:23] ben at vanilla dot net Juts noticed this is the same with numeric strings and ordinary numeric keys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-29 13:40:28] ben at vanilla dot net Description: ------------ If you set a session variable with the root key as a numeric string it fails to save. It also fails to save anything else in the array after the numeric rook key string. This was via FCGI with lighttpd, but also reproduced on Debian etch with apache2. Reproduce code: --------------- Set a session :- <?php session_start(); $_SESSION['Test1'] = "This should be ok"; $_SESSION['123']['test']="This is a test"; $_SESSION['Test2'] = "This is not saved"; ?> <PRE> Session Set: <?php print_r($_SESSION); ?> </PRE> Read it :- <?php session_start(); ?> <PRE> Session Read: <?php print_r($_SESSION); ?> </PRE> Expected result: ---------------- I would expect to see the same details in the session from the second piece of code as output from the first. :- Session Read: Array ( [Test1] => This should be ok [123] => Array ( [test] => This is a test ) [Test2] => This is not saved ) Actual result: -------------- Session Read: Array ( [Test1] => This should be ok ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=40274&edit=1