php session not persisting from page to page

From: Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:22:31 +0000
Subject: php session not persisting from page to page
Groups: php.general 
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Hi, I have two very simple php scripts and the second srcipt is not seeing the variables session_registered by the first script. I'm running PHP-4.3.1. And have both "register_globals" and "track_vars" set to "ON". Well, the first script prints out the session var fine, but not the second one. As well I used session_is_registered("sess_var") to check if "sess_var" is registered in the second script and it says "false". What is wrong? Is there something else I overlooked? Thanks for your help! 1st script - page1.php: <? session_start(); session_register("sess_var"); $sess_var = "Hello world!"; echo "The content of \$sess_var is $sess_var<br>"; ?> <a href = "page2.php">Next page</a> 2nd script - page2.php: <? session_start(); if (session_is_registered("sess_var")) { echo "true<br><br>";} else {echo "false<br>";} echo "The content of \$sess_var is $sess_var<br>"; session_unregister("sess_var"); ?>

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