Re: session_unregister not working properly

This is known issue. And (IMO) it is a bug, not feature. --Jani On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Christoph Kassen wrote: >While testing 4.1.0RC2 I noticed that the following script does not work as >expected: > ><?php >session_register("count"); >echo $_SESSION["count"]++; > >session_unregister("count"); >?> > >When I set register_globals=off the counter is incrementing although PHP has >to unregister the variable from the session. >Further tests showed that when register_globals is set to 'on', the variable >is unregistered properly. >It also works when you use the global variable $count. > >I noticed that when you replace session_unregister("count") with >unset($_SESSION['count']); the variable is also properly >deleted/"unregistered". > >I think that this is not they way it should work and PHP should be fixed so >that session_unregister properly deletes the variable. >But if this is the intended behavior of php now, then it should be >documented. > >I tested on: >Windows 2000 Pro + SP2, >Apache 1.3.22, >fresh PHP 4.1.0RC2 build, created with VC++ 6 >using only the extensions build in by default > > >Christoph > > >