Fw: [PHP] Session wierdness

I have experience similar "flakiness" using sessions but in every case discovered that it was my code that was at fault. In fact this happened to me recently while I was programming a fairly complex login script. I'd do print_r($_SESSION) at the top of every page after session_start(); See if you can pinpoint where the you're losing the data. -Kevn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Walls" <rob.walls@hill.af.mil> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: [PHP] Session wierdness > Is it possible to use PHP sessions reliably? > I get very inconsistent results. > I register session vars after a password check. > I use session_start at the top of every file. > I watch the /tmp directory for session files. > Within a few random page transitions the session data inside the registered > variables gets emptied. (for instance, $userid=$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['userid']; > no longer returns the registered variable userid). > The session file is still there, but the value reported by session_id() is > different than the sessionid portion of any session filename. At this point > session_destroy doesn't delete the session file either, so apparently it > doesn't know which session it is really in. > I've bought two books (Wrox and Vis Quickpro) and neither of these books > addresses possible session flakiness. > So, is it my flaky code, IE's cookie hijinks or maybe that PHP is not really > ready to do robust session management? > BTW: I am using PHP ver 4.0.6 (patched for file upload bug) on > Linux/Apache/MySQL > > Any suggestions would be appreciated! > rob.walls@hill.af.mil > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >