note 63345 added to function.session-register

I wasted about two days trying to figure out why some of my session data was being lost. The problem occurred intermittently and I was nearly convinced it had to be a PHP bug. Since my session data was being stored in mysql, I finally thought to check the definition of the session table. The session data was stored in a column of type 'text' (which can only hold 65,535 bytes of data). Changing the session column to type 'mediumtext' (which can hold 16,777,215 bytes) solved the problem. Perhaps this tip will help someone else who may be experiencing similar session loss problems. ---- Server IP: 216.194.113.175 Probable Submitter: 66.218.244.61 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-register.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/63345 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63345/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63345/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63345/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63345/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63345/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63345/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63345 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/63345 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php