Bug #16263 Updated: session.start() create new empty session file and not resume existing session

ID: 16263 Updated by: asiop@yahoo.com Reported By: kur@natur.cuni.cz Status: Feedback Bug Type: Session related Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.1.2 New Comment: This advice might be worth millions for some, after a sleepless night and endless code comparisons, i found out that adding global $HTTP_SESSION_VARS; right after the session_start(); solves the problem, even when using $_SESSION for your coding which is supposed to be global anyways, so till a formal fix comes up i hope this will help you too.. session_start(); global $HTTP_SESSION_VARS; $_SESSION["HELLO"]="WORLD"; etc. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-17 04:33:30] pryde@oldworld.de I did exchange all dll's, didn't help with the problem. Sometimes it takes a little while to "loose" the session data, somethimes it happens quickly... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-15 20:27:19] sniper@php.net once again, whenever you update/downgrade PHP remember to replace ALL the dlls and other binaries in your systems with the ones found in the release packages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-15 15:21:23] pryde@oldworld.de Problem still exists in PHP 4.2.0 rc4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-15 14:44:20] snowkrash@altavista.nl I use Apache 1.3.23 and PHP 4.1.0 as an ISAPI module on Windows2000 SP2 with NTFS. I tried 4.1.2 when it came out and today - 15/4/2002 - 4.2.0 RC4. I keep have to downgrade back to 4.1.0 because my complete session-based website ceased to work when using ANY PHP version greater than 4.1.0 (however never tried 4.1.1). It heavily relies on URL transmitted sessions .... so without cookies. I set register_globals to OFF en use $_SESSION etc throughout the app. I'm really curious when sessions will work again, since I'd like to benefit from the solved security issues of 4.1.x in >= 4.1.2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-15 14:42:28] ggrimnes@csd.abdn.ac.uk I had this problem on Win2k, IIS5 with versions 4.1.1 and 4.1.2, but I upgraded today to 4.2rc4 and it worked perfectly! Thanks Derick! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/16263 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16263&edit=1