Re[2]: [PHP] Sessions simply do not work?

Hi, Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 2:28:58 AM, you wrote: MRW> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:37:47AM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote: >> Michael R. Wayne wrote: >> >> >In my continuing efforts to actually get sessions to work, I upgraded >> >to PHP 4.3.6 and apache 1.3.31. This did not make the slighest >> >difference. >> > >> >So, does ANYone have ideas of how to debug this? Or is PHP simply >> >broken and no longer able to maintain sessions? >> >> I've just been debugging some session problems. Successfully, but there >> is something rather brittle in there somewhere MRW> It seems that people have forgotten last week's postings. To recap: MRW> Session support worked fine in 4.1.2. It's broken in 4.3.4 and 4.3.6. MRW> The relevant session variables are: MRW> Session Support enabled (as per phpinfo) MRW> session.auto_start On or Off (makes no difference) MRW> session.use_cookies Off <- not using cookies MRW> session.name PHPSESSID MRW> session.use_trans_sid Off (trans_sid worked with forms in 4.1.2) MRW> session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 MRW> Other things people have asked about: MRW> MRW> url_rewriter.tags a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry if your not using cookies you have to pass the sessionid in your form as a hidden variable somewhere. Or maybe I missed it :) -- regards, Tom