Bug #16872 [Com]: PHP crashes at session_start()

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16872&edit=1 ID: 16872 Comment by: Stehlampe2020 at gmail dot com Reported by: siebe_tolsma at hotmail dot com Summary: PHP crashes at session_start() Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Session related Operating System: Win 98 PHP Version: 4.2.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I'm also trying that. I load a translation (from a JSON file, which one gets loaded is chosen by the user) and if I then immediately die(); it works. If I put the die(); after the session_start(); it returns error 500. This is the script as of writing the comment: ```PHP <?php // Load translation in requested language or German $transl = json_decode(file_get_contents('transl-'.((isset($_GET['l']) && in_array($_GET['l'], ['de', 'en', 'sv'])) ? $_GET['l'] : 'de').'.json')); var_dump($transl); //debug, works // die('Debug 1'); //debug, works when not commented-out // Set user type to guest if no session is running or fail to deliver files if it's a file fetching request start_session(); die(); //debug, doesn't work if (!isset($_SESSION['ut'])) { $_SESSION['ut'] = 'g'; } if (!in_array($_SESSION['ut'], ['g', 'u', 'a'])) { // ut→usertype g→guest u→user a→admin session_destroy(); header('Content-type: text/html; encoding=utf-8'); die('<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>'.$transl->title_sesserr_type.' • Lampe2020.de</title> </head> </html>'); } if (!((isset($_SESSION['un']) && isset($_SESSION['pw'])))&&($_SESSION['un']!='' && $_SESSION['pw']!='')) { // un→username pw→password $_SESSION['ut'] = 'g'; } ?> ``` Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-27 10:39:06] siebe_tolsma at hotmail dot com All right, So I have the this script: <?php session_start(); /* phpTextEditor v1.0 (03/21/02) http://php.rij73.com Copyright (C) 2002 rij73 Please post in the forum at http://php.rij73.com if you have any questions or comments. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. */ include ("config.inc"); //password check if(($valid_pass != $editor_password) or ($valid_user != $editor_username)) { echo "<html><head><title>$title</title><style type=\"text/css\"><!--"; include ("style.inc"); echo "--></style></head>"; echo "<body onload=\"document.login.valid_user.focus()\"><table align=center width=750 height=\"90%\"><tr><td align=center valign=middle><form name=\"login\" method=\"post\" action=\"login.php\">"; echo "$user<br><input type=\"text\" name=\"valid_user\"><br><br>$pass<br><input type=\"password\" name=\"valid_pass\"><br><br><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"login\">"; echo "</form></td></tr></table></body>"; } //end password check //password okay, send to script! elseif(($valid_pass == $editor_password) or ($valid_user == $editor_username)){ session_register('valid_user'); session_register('valid_pass'); header("Location: index.php"); } ?> I expect it to start a session, register the user and password and the go to index.php. Now when I run the script in the browser (I run under a Apache server), PHP crashes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-27 10:31:06] jan@php.net Not enough information was provided for us to be able to handle this bug. Please re-read the instructions at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php If you can provide more information, feel free to add it to this bug and change the status back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-27 10:29:02] siebe_tolsma at hotmail dot com Hi, I try to make a script with sessions, but when I use the command session_start() in my script, PHP crashes. I don't know what causes it, so please help me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16872&edit=1