RE: [PHP] Session var read by form C++ CGI prog ?

On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 01:32PM, Ford, Mike [LSS] <M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk> wrote: >On 02 September 2003 19:22, Raditha Dissanayake wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Had a similar problem when building upload progress bar. Initially i >> used cookies but that had a few minor hiccups. What you can do is to >> encode your variables into the query string. This is >> accessible as part >> of the env. variables. Since you are familiar with C++ you >> will get the >> hang of PHP very quickly. >> >> oh and btw the correct way to set a cookie is with >> session_register(), >> $_SESSION is used for retrieval. > >Er, nope. If you have a version of PHP with the $_SESSION array, then you use it for both >setting *and* retrieving -- session_register() and friends should *not* be used in this case. >(Indeed, there are circumstances where the combination of session_register() with $_SESSION gives >broken behaviour.) > Right. I am running PHP 4.3.3. Win32 version to be specific, on Win2k server, with Apache 1.3.26. I installed PHP to try and do this trick. JB