Re: sessions (version 5.1 to 5.2 )

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:15 +0800, Fritz Kuhlman wrote: > Dear PHP gurus, > > I moved to PHP from asp around version 4.something. When i tried using > sessions on my site, they just wouldn't work. No error messages, just > wouldn't work. There was a session ID generated, but if i tried.... > > $_SESSION['test'] = "somedata"; > > <a href="page2.php">check session value</a> > > on page one and click on the link to page two with something like this, > > echo $_SESSION['test']; > > nothing was displayed. I was just playing with php at that point and just > ignored it and looked into .NET for a few months, (non related issue). > > Once I upgraded to version 5.2, (i noted that in version 5.1, sessions still > didn't work), the problem disappeared, but i didn't notice anything in the > bug list of 5.1 noting this. Now an associate is having the same problem on > a site that is not planning to upgrade past 5.1 anytime soon. What are we > missing? > > Note; I spent many hours trying to save session data in a db and other > setting changes to no avail. > > strange. i must be missing something simple. Maybe... http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php Do you have error logging enabled? What level? What are your session settings in php.ini (search for [Session]). Maybe the session file can't be written to where you want it written. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................