Bug #13831: Assigning to multi-dimensional $HTTP_SESSION_VARS array not restored

From: shelby@DownloadFAST.com Operating system: FreeBSD 4.2 PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: Assigning to multi-dimensional $HTTP_SESSION_VARS array not restored I did: session_register( "SESSION" ); The following array element is not restored on session_start() of next page: $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["SESSION"]["class_name"] = new ClassName(); Whereas any of the following are restored (each tested independently): $SESSION["class_name"] = new ClassName(); $GLOBALS["SESSION"]["class_name"] = new ClassName(); $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["SESSION"] = new ClassName(); I also have a question which I have not tested. Obviously this question affects whether I can work around this bug with register_globals off. When register_globals is turned off, will $GLOBALS["SESSION"] still represent the same registed session variable? Or am I forced to use $HTTP_SESSION_VARS in that case? The Sessions documentation does not mention $GLOBALS and seems to imply strongly the latter where it says: Quoted from http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php: "If track_vars is enabled and register_globals is disabled, only members of the global associative array $HTTP_SESSION_VARS can be registered as session variables. The restored session variables will only be available in the array $HTTP_SESSION_VARS." -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=13831&edit=1