Re: Custom Session Func?

common mistake, your session_register() is before you assign the variable, you must have it after. Ive done this myself. oi. session_start(); if ( ! session_is_registered("user_key") ) { $user_key = "dummy"; session_register("user_key"); } I'll include my session file. this will allways set $SID and will also allow you to transfer session's across multiple domains. handy. somesites dont want to fork the money out to purchase their own ssl certificates, so we transfer them to our server where they can use our certificate (different domain obviously). <?php include_once('time.egn'); if ( isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['PHPSESSID']) ) { if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['PHPSESSID']) ) $new_sessid = $HTTP_GET_VARS['PHPSESSID']; if ( isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['PHPSESSID']) ) $new_sessid = $HTTP_POST_VARS['PHPSESSID']; if ( isset($new_sessid) ) session_id($new_sessid); } session_start(); if (!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['SessionID'])) { $SessionID = mtime(); session_register('SessionID'); } $PHPSESSID = session_id(); $SID = "PHPSESSID=$PHPSESSID"; ?> -- Chris Lee lee@mediawaveonline.com "Elan" <rebol@techscribe.com> wrote in message news:3B01CCB0.E9D6DBDE@techscribe.com... Hi, Problem: I register a session variable and assign a value to it. The value is lost when I try to access it from a different webpage later. Must I use custom session_save_handler functions if I want to extend the life of a variable's value from Webpage to Webpage? Details: I'm using PHP's session management (PHP 4.0.3pl1). session.save_handler is set by default to files. According to the manual track_vars is always enabled for this version of PHP. I use the following code to manage my session. It is contained in a include file that is shared by all PHP pages: session_save_path("/usr/some/path/html/sessions/"); session_start(); $registered_user_key = false; if ( ! session_is_registered("user_key") ) { session_register("user_key"); $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["user_key"] = "dummy"; $registered_user_key = true; } function log_user_key($user_key = false) { global $HTTP_SESSION_VARS, $set_user_key, $get_user_key; $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["user_key"] = $user_key; $set_user_key = $user_key; $get_user_key = get_session_key("user_key"); } function log_session() { } function get_session_key($key_name) { global $HTTP_SESSION_VARS; return($HTTP_SESSION_VARS[$key_name]); } <testing> I submit a Webpage that includes a value for "user_key". <note> A session file is created in the subdirectory sessions. This file's filename coincides with the reported cookie session id. </note> <processing> The function log_user_key(...) is called with a legal value in response to my user input. </processing> <verification> In response to the user's input I generate webpage that reports the value that was saved. I report this value using the function log_user_key(). </verficiation> <failure> I submit another Webpage. This Webpage reports: a) The registration of the variable "user_key" was apparently preserved. How I know that? Because $registered_user_key is set to false, which means that the body of the if (! sesson_is_registerd ...) {} wasn't visited. b) I report the result of session_is_registered and it report 1 (i.e. true). c) get_session_key("user_key") does not return the value I previously assigned to "user_key" using the log_user_key function. </failure> I checked the session file in the sessions/ subdirectory. It is empty. Doesn't PHP's session manager keep its info in there? If it does, why wasn't it written to the file? Doesn't the default files session_save_handler take care of that? Or must I supply a custom handler set to ensure that the values are saved? TIA, Elan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net