Re: Sessions just don't work on my machine. (Trying this again)

Dont use sessions, they are a little flaky anyway. Use a mixture of holding data in database and passing sid/userid/hash around on the URL. You wont regret it. >I have written here several times on this subject and in the end those who >have gratiously helped me have ended up just telling me they have no clue >why it doesn't work. It HAS to be my server setup but I don't know what it >could be. > >Sessions just don't work on my machine... > >The heart of the problem is the session_start() function. > >The first time you start a session with this function it creates a new >session, that's fine. > >The problem happens when it's run and no matter if the SSID is in a cookie >or passed via a form, it will still create a new session, every single time. >It will not pickup the old session. > >Here is the app I setup to demonstrate the problem: > >http://fromtheduke.com/session/ > >The first page initiates the session, the variable is posted to the next >page, the next page should retrieve the session and display the first two >variables which were registered in the session, then display the third var. > >You'll see the third var showsup, the first two don't. The session ID may >or may not remain the same. If you manually remove the index2.php file and >reload the first page, the SSID will have changed. > >Source of the files: >index.php: ><? > >session_start(); > >session_register("var1"); >session_register("var2"); > >$var1 = "My var 1"; >$var2 = "My var 2"; > >?><HTML> ><HEAD> ><TITLE>Session Page 1</TITLE> ></HEAD> > ><BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF> > >PHPSESSID: <? echo $PHPSESSID; ?><BR> >Var1: <? echo $var1; ?><BR> >Var2: <? echo $var2; ?><BR> > ><FORM ACTION="index2.php" METHOD="POST"> >VAR 3: <INPUT TYPE=TEXT VALUE="My Var 3" NAME="myvar3"> <INPUT >TYPE=SUBMIT >VALUE="go"><BR> ></FORM> > ></BODY> ></HTML> >-------------------------- > >Source of index2.php: ><? > >session_start(); // start session >session_register("var3"); // register var 3 session variable > >$var3 = $myvar3; >?><HTML> ><HEAD> ><TITLE>Session Page 2</TITLE> ></HEAD> > ><BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF> > >PHPSESSID: <? echo $PHPSESSID; ?><BR> >Var1: <? echo $var1; ?><BR> >Var2: <? echo $var2; ?><BR> >VAR3: <? echo $var3; ?><BR> > ></BODY> ></HTML> >-------------------------- > >I have tried session_name() to force the session ID. I was told though this >function doesn't set the SSID. It gives the SSID a name or something. > >I have been told this is all setup correctly, yet, you can see it doesn't >work. > >The permissions on my /tmp directory look like this: > >drwxrwxrwt /tmp > >Does this have anything to do with this? I don't know much about the >permissions part of things. > >-- > >Thomas Deliduka >IT Manager > ------------------------- >New Eve Media >The Solution To Your Internet Angst >http://www.neweve.com/ > > > >-- >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 > > > -- ben@videonetwork.org +44 (0)7970 269 522 http://www.subvertise.org -- Altering the Corporate Image http://www.criticaldistribution.org -- Buy Alternative Video Online http://www.videonetwork.org -- Community/Radical Video http://www.spamcop.net/ -- Killing SPAM feels good!