Re: Session cookie doesn't work

Hey, Your session will expire, regardless of the call to session_set_cookie_params. If you're looking to propagate a session across time, you should look at keeping your session data in a database (google: session_set_save_handler, there's a good tutorial on the zend site), then calling a table row based on a cookie you set independently of the session. Based on the configuration you presented, I don't see why the following code shouldn't give you the expected results: ## test1.php ## <?php session_start(); $_SESSION['name'] = 'Kevin'; ?> <a href="test2.php">test2</a> ########### ## test2.php ## <?php session_start(); echo $_SESSION['name']; // If the above doesn't work, try doing a print_r($_SESSION) and let us know what that brings up. ?> ########### If for some reason I am not aware off, your typical setup doesn't automatically save the session before exiting the script, you could try ending your scripts with: <?php session_write_close(); ?> As a general tip, I suggest you set your error_reporting to E_ALL on your development machine. That would print out a notice when a certain index or key is not set in an array. best regards, Stijn Teck wrote:

Hi, I'm working to use cookie to maintain session data across multiple pages in PHP4.42. I have the following two scripts, where I think the second file outputs a data in a session variable. file 1 - test_1.php ##################### <?php session_set_cookie_params(360 * 24 * 3600); session_start(); $_SESSION['name'] = "Kevn"; ?> <a href="test_2.php?<php? echo SID ?>">Go next</a> ########################################## file 2 - test_2.php ###################### <?php session_start(); echo $_SESSION['name']; // Here I expect to show the word "Kevin" ?> ########################################## phpinfo() tells me that * Session Support enabled * session.auto_start Off * session.bug_compat_42 On * session.bug_compat_warn On * session.cache_expire 180 * session.cache_limiter nocache * session.cookie_domain no value * session.cookie_path / * session.cookie_secure Off * session.entropy_file no value * session.entropy_length 0 * session.gc_divisor 100 * session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 * session.gc_probability 0 * session.name PHPSESSID * session.referer_check no value * session.save_handler files * session.save_path /var/lib/php4 * session.use_cookies On * session.use_only_cookies On * session.use_trans_sid On What am I missing? In file 1, I also tried "<a href="test_2.php>Go next</a> . I've been learning PHP using various books and websites. Still I don't solve this issue. Any help would be apprecaited.