#20136 [Opn->Bgs]: Sessions don't work across scripts

ID: 20136 Updated by: iliaa@php.net Reported By: elloyd19@yahoo.com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Session related Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Don't use session_register to register session variables, instead do $_SESSION['variable'] = 'value'; or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['variable'] = 'value'; It would also be a very good idea to try the latest CVS snapshot, it contains many fixes to the session code, which were added since the 4.2.3 release. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-28 10:13:58] elloyd19@yahoo.com I'm using PHP running on Win2k using IIS and apache 1.3.x on separate machines. The basic problem is that when you start a session using session_start() and register some variables using session_register(), you lose the session "link" when you jump to the other scripts/pages. If you check what PHP does, everything seems normal at first: it creates the session file and the vars are in there, with values and all. The problem lies when you jump to the next page/script. Trying to get values using $_SESSION or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS produces no results. The values are still in the session file, but you can't get at them. I don't think its my php.ini config that's causing this. Register_globals is on. And I've gone back to version 4.1.2 because sessions work on that, so I can't supply any config info. Really sorry if this is a waste of your time in case you follow up on this and produces no results but I think there is a real problem here. I didn't find this in the advanced bug search either so I decided to post it here. There's also a lot of people stumbling about in the newsgroup this month wondering what's happening to their sessions. Anyway, hope this helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20136&edit=1