Re: Session data getting lost

* Thus wrote Rich Gray (rich@f1central.net): > Chris > > Thanks for your answer which I'm sorry to say makes no sense to me given the > code example I supplied ... can you explain to me why you think register > globals being set to on for the Linux server will cause the $_SESSION > superglobal array to lose data? Am I missing something obvious here? This makes perfect sense (see below for what makes sense since you top posted.) This is all explained if you read the session documentation. http://php.net/session <snip for the lazy> If register_globals is enabled, then the global variables and the $_SESSION entries will automatically reference the same values which were registered in the prior session instance. </snip> > > > --- Rich Gray <rich@f1central.net> wrote: > > > I'm running v4.2.3 on RedHat v7.0 and am getting some strange > > > behaviour with the $_SESSION superglobal... > > ... > > > It works fine on Win2K albeit v4.3.0 of PHP. > > > > Maybe you have register_globals enabled on your Linux server and > > not on your > > Windows PC? Compare php.ini files before giving it too much thought. > > Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."