Bug #17848: Session stored in db doesn't show up until data is stored with it

From: fabian@ahrberg.se Operating system: Linux 2.4 kernel PHP version: 4.2.1 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: Session stored in db doesn't show up until data is stored with it I used to store sessions in mysql as it made it easy for me to jsut count the rows to find out how many sessions that were being used at a time. Since I also stored whether a session was "logged in" or not it made it very easy to make realtime stats such as: 95 visitors, 65 logged in When I upgraded to 4.1.x, I'm not sure it could be 4.0.2 or something like that it suddenly stopped working. When I looked into it I found out that the sessions started but with no variables written to them never showed up in my session table which is REALLY annoying as I no longer can get the stats out as easily as before. Someone told me it's a feature not to store the empty sessions, according to me it's a problem. Maybe a flag with the session_start could be used? So the feature wanting can keep it as it is right now and I can store my empty sessions? Somewhat bothered... ;) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17848&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17848&r=globals