Re: problem reading sessions

Have you set the session.save_path properly in php.ini ? By default it is set to /tmp which doesn't work under Win* systems. You need to point it to a valid directory on your machine. HTH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair" <alastair@uoguelph.ca> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] problem reading sessions > I get the error: 'Warning: Undefined index: blah' when I use the long name. > As far as I can tell it doesn't seem to be actually writing the data into > the session file. Am I missing a crucial step somewhere? > > alastair > > "Kevin Stone" <kevin@helpelf.com> wrote in message > news:003401c19563$95ee2e00$6401a8c0@rpdcty1.sd.home.com... > > I'll add if you do not have register_globals set then you can access the > > variable by its long name, $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["blah"]. > > > > -Kevin > > > > > > > Is register_globals set to 'on' in php.ini? It needs to be for this > coding > > > style to work. > > > > > > Kirk > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Alastair [mailto:alastair@uoguelph.ca] > > > > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:41 PM > > > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > > > Subject: [PHP] problem reading sessions > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have just recently set up PHP on my Win2K laptop and I have > > > > just found out > > > > that I can't read sessions. As far as I can tell the session > > > > file is being > > > > created, but PHP doesn't seem to be able to get any data into it. > > > > > > > > Here is what the session file looks like: > > > > !sess_user|!blah| > > > > > > > > The two PHP files look like this: > > > > > > > > test_session1.php > > > > <? > > > > $blah = "good"; > > > > session_start(); > > > > session_register("blah"); > > > > ?> > > > > > > > > > > > > test_session2.php > > > > <? > > > > session_start(); > > > > echo session_is_registered("blah") . "<br>"; > > > > echo session_encode(). "<br>"; > > > > echo isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS) . "<br>"; > > > > echo sizeof($HTTP_SESSION_VARS) . "<br>"; > > > > > > > > echo $blah; > > > > ?> > > > > > > > > For the second PHP page the ouput I get is: > > > > - true for the 'session is registered' function > > > > - the string that is found in the session file (listed above) > > > > - true for the 'isset' function > > > > - size of zero > > > > - The warning: 'Warning: Undefined variable: blah ' > > > > > > > > Does anybody know why I would not be able to read these variables? > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > alastair > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > 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 > >