RE: [PHP] session management

Mark Faine wrote: > Maybe you need to do a session_start(); > or turn on auto session start in php.ini > more than likely it is something to do with your configuration I have cracked the problem with some code from webmonkey: session_start(); if(!$PHPSESSID) { session_register("ARRAY"); $ARRAY = array(); } elseif(!$ARRAY) { $ARRAY = array(); } Anyway, thanks very much for your help - my brain is slowly solidifying again ;) Regards, Richard "I'm tired of ... I'm tired of travelling, I'm tired of doing commedy. I'm tired of looking out at your vacant faces looking back at me, wanting me to fill your empty lives with humour you couldn't possibly think of yourselves." Bill Hicks > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Jones [mailto:rikki@ultramail.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:27 AM > To: Mark Faine > Subject: Re: [PHP] session management > > Mark Faine wrote: > > if(!isset($SESSION)){ > > session_register("SESSION"); > > } > > > > $SESSION is an array, and is now registered > > I've just tried this, and am still turning up the same problem. It seems > to > > be that the $SESSION variable is simply not being passed between successive > loads of the page, which is odd, 'cos I tried the counting script on: > http://www.php.net/manual/ref.session.php and that worked fine. > I have both register_globals and track_vars turned on, which I thought was > all that was required to get sessions to work OK. I don't have to pass > $SESSIONS back to the page every time it loads, do I? That's what session > management is for, isn't it? > > > You should read the documentation on sessions, also phpbuilder has a lot > > of > > > good articles, and web monkey as well. > > I've looked at the documentation on sessions for more time than I care to > remember, but I'll have a go at the others, cheers. > > BTW, is there any sort of protocol for responding to emails on this list > (ie, > replying at the top, and leaving the original at the bottom)? > > Thanks for your help > > Richard > > > "I hate patriotism, man, it makes me ... sick. It's a round world last > time > > I checked" > Bill Hicks > > > "Richard Jones" <rikki@ultramail.co.uk> wrote in message > > news:00080813240602.10895@arthur... > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I've just joined the mailing list, and am already wondering if someone > > > can help me. I am attempting to use an array as a session variable. > > > About an hour ago, it was working OK. It had some bugs, but in general > > > it was > > > > doing > > > > > what I wanted. Feeling satisfied with my progress I take a break for a > > > cigarette, during which time the code decides that actually, it's not > > > > going > > > > > to work after all!! > > > > > > I'm sure that I didn't touch anything between when it worked and > > > didn't > > > > work > > > > > - my only guess is that maybe something was being cached somewhere, to > > > > hide > > > > > the fact that I'd broken it, but that it's quite unlikely. > > > > > > I wrote: > > > > > > //session management gumpf > > > > > > session_start(); > > > session_register($ARRAY); > > > > > > > > > /* check that the array has been set. If not, set it */ > > > > > > if(!isset($ARRAY) || !is_array($ARRAY)) { > > > $ARRAY = array(); > > > echo "reset"; // just so I can see when it's doing this > > > } > > > > > > include("products.php"); // other functions are contained in here > > > > > > /* check that $pta (a number) is set. If it is, and $amount (another > > > number) is not set, then set $amount to 1, and then build the array */ > > > if(isset($pta)) { > > > if (!isset($amount)) { > > > $amount = 1; > > > } > > > $ARRAY = build_cart_array($CART, $pta, $amount); // this works, and > > > $ARRAY is returned as a successfully built array. > > > } > > > > > > // end of session management gumpf > > > > > > > > > The problem seems to be that further down the page that this is at the > > > top of, I call other functions which use $ARRAY. They all also > > > manipulate the array correctly, but some of them require that the page > > on > > > > which the above code is stored be reloaded. Now, that /was/ OK until > > > after my cigarette, > > > > and > > > > > everything behaved nicely, but suddenly the array checking code that > > > > prints > > > > > "reset" every time it runs is running every time that I reload the > > > page, > > > > and > > > > > resets the array to being empty, which is not what I want. > > > > > > My suspicions concern the session_register() function. I've read that > > it > > > is > > > > > buggy (I don't know how true this is), and that it overwrites all > > session > > > > variables when it runs. If this is the case, does anyone know how to > > get > > > > round it, and any ideas why it wasn't causing problems before? Any > > > help would be thoroughly appreciated, as I've been banging my head > > > against it > > > > for > > > > > some time now, and my brain is hurting. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > "I need my sleep. I need eight hours a day ... and about ten at > > > night." Bill Hicks > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net