Re: Weird sessions problem

On Monday 29 November 2004 06:46, steve wrote: > No to both. When I arrive at the new page, the sessions vars (as expected) > contain the values set by the previous page. $ref_page is not set. The > values are transferred to $ref_page by the function. That works as planned. > I then reset the value of the session vars, at which point, $ref_page also > gets set. From printing out the values after each line, I find this: > > Let's say we've come from the page /community.php and have arrived > at /market.php. Here are the values at each stage: > > $_SESSION['ref_page] = '/community.php' > $_SESSION['ref_pagequery'] = 'pagemode=index' // as an example > 53. $ref_page = get_ref_page(); > $ref_page['name'] = '/community.php' > $ref_page['query'] = 'pagemode=index' > $_SESSION['ref_page] = '/community.php' > $_SESSION['ref_pagequery'] = 'pagemode=index' > 54. $_SESSION['ref_page'] = THIS_PAGE; > $ref_page = '/community.php' // now a scalar > $_SESSION['ref_page] = '/market.php' > > register_globals is off (in php.ini and there are no .htaccess files). The only thing that I can think of that will cause such behaviour (that is setting $_SESSION['xyz'] will change $xyz) is the register_globals setting being enabled. If you're certain that this is not the case I suggest that you post some *concise* code that illustrates the problem so that others can test whether they can reproduce what you're seeing. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you? -- Patrick Volkerding */