Bug #10845: session_destroy() bugs

From: david@sprat.co.nz Operating system: Redhat Linux 7 PHP version: 4.0.5 PHP Bug Type: *Session related Bug description: session_destroy() bugs I have had a lot of problems with trying to destroy a session with session_destroy() as have many others I see, and none of the solutions brough up seem to work reliably. What I found is that if I made any session-related functions (such as session_register etc) AFTER session_destroy(); in code, PHP returned an error. This is regardless of whether session_destroy() was in another branch of a conditional statement: e.g. 1 if(condition){ 2 session_destroy(); 3 { 4 else{ 5 session_register("variable"); 6 } would return the error like "Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /test.php:5) in /test.php on line 5)" So even though session_register() would not be called if session_destroy was called and vice versa because of the branch in code, PHP still didn't like this. The way to get around this is: if(!condition){ session_register("variable"); { else{ session_destroy(); } Anyway, hopefully this will help you find the source of this frustrating problem so it can be fixed. -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10845&edit=1