Re: Bug #14809: global session vars are being assigned by value, not reference

From: Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:38:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Bug #14809: global session vars are being assigned by value, not reference
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Derick, did you finish to change session.xml?
Can I start working on the manual page so that users to
avoid common/known issues?

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Yasuo Ohgaki

winterchild@pobox.com wrote:


From:             winterchild@pobox.com

Operating system: linux 2.4.7-10

PHP version:      4.1.1
PHP Bug Type:     Session related

Bug description:  global session vars are being assigned by value, not reference

hi
This seems to be a problem with the way session variables register in
4.1.1
I have defined a session variable called $session thus:
session_start();

                session_register("session");
                global $session;
                $session['profileName'] = "name";


This seems to work fine.  On the next page I do:

session_start();
global $session;
echo "profileName=".$session['profileName']; (displays name)
$session['profileName']="new name";

however, this doesn't seem to actually change the session variable, since
on the next page if i echo $session['profileName'] it still shows 'name'
instead of 'new name'

I can modify the session var value using
$_SESSION[session][profileName]="new name"; and then it works fine on the
next page.

The latter format worked with 4.0.5, i just installed 4.1.1 and now
apparently I have to modify all my scripts..

Here is my config:
'./configure' '--with-mysql' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs'
'--enable-track-vars=yes'

register_globals is on.
apache version is 1.3.20

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