Re: Register globals and ini_set

On Fri, July 8, 2005 7:50 am, Terry Romine said: You *ARE* doing session_start at the top of each page, right?... Ya gotta do that. > I was setting the $_SESSION by: > $_SESSION['var_name'] = "this"; > or > $my_local = "this"; > $_SESSION['var_name'] = $my_local; There *WAS* a bug in PHP [mumble] (4.1.10???) where the $_SESSION data was "leaking" out to PHP as a "string reference" (never mind PHP has no such data type). You could detect it by dumping out $_SESSION and you would see an & in front of all the strings. So if you later did: $var_name = ''; Then your $_SESSION['var_name'] was *ALSO* getting set to '' > I had stopped using session_register() some time back. > > "Sporatically" meaning that some of my variables are working fine, while > others seem to become empty when referenced by a later script. These > scripts were working fine on the older PHP version. I'm sure it's just a > quick determination as to what to change, and then I can do a global > update across the site. There are about 20-30 websites that this affects, > so you can see my frustration in trying to do this by bits and pieces. I > had done a test file like this: > > test1.php: > <?php > $_SESSION['check'] = "test 1"; > echo($_SESSION['check']); > ?> > <a href='test2.php'>Click</a> > > and > test2.php: > <?php > echo($_SESSION['check']); > ?> > test1.php displays "test1" but test2.php displays nothing. Looks to me more like the more mundane: You didn't do session_start() at the beginning of both scripts. Go to Jail. Do not collect $400. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm