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

ID: 17848 Updated by: fabian@ahrberg.se Reported By: fabian@ahrberg.se -Status: Feedback +Status: Open Bug Type: Session related Operating System: Linux 2.4 kernel PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: Just a suggestion... Workarounds bothers me... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-19 15:18:15] hholzgra@php.net why don't you just register a dummy variable? would take about the same amount of code rewrite as the session_start() flag you suggested, but save us C code changes, documentation update and QA testing ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-19 14:13:36] fabian@ahrberg.se 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17848&edit=1