#44057 [Opn]: Session vars weird behavior

From: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:27:21 +0000
Subject: #44057 [Opn]: Session vars weird behavior
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ID: 44057 Updated by: jani@php.net Reported By: galaxy dot mipt at gmail dot com Status: Open -Bug Type: Session related +Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux 2.6.9 PHP Version: 5.2.5 New Comment: This needs to be told in the manual. Even as $_SESSION and $HTTP_SESSION_VARS look different they're essentially same thing. (dunno how to say this better..just don't do it! :) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-05 23:02:13] galaxy dot mipt at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Looks like session data gets corrupted at serialization step if one attempts to store certain variables in session, namely HTTP_SESSION_VARS. As far as I understand it is a desired behavior that var with that name doesn't get saved in session (still it is *really* worth mentioning that in documentation on sessions), but it seems to have some side effects on successive variables passed to the session. Reproduce code: --------------- session_start(); print '<pre>'; print_r($_SESSION); print '</pre>'; $_SESSION['qwerty'] = 1; $_SESSION['HTTP_SESSION_VARS'] = 2; $_SESSION['ABC'] = 'qqq'; Expected result: ---------------- First call: Array ( ) Later calls: Array ( [qwerty] => 1 [ABC] => qqq ) Actual result: -------------- First call: Array ( ) Later calls: Array ( [qwerty] => 1 [i:2;ABC] => qqq ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44057&edit=1

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