note 13506 added to ref.session.php

I just spent valuable 15 minutes wrestling with this. (PHP 4.0.5 here.) It seems that if register_globals is on, it does not store the changes that take place in the $HTTP_SESSION_VARS[] array. For example, I had this code in one page: session_register('mp3com'); $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['mp3com'] = 'mp3.com/ilp'; // junk value Another page asked for the value of 'mp3com' session var, but the value was not provided with the session data. As soon as I turned off register_globals in the configuration file, $HTTP_SESSION_VARS began working as intended. Apparently what happens is that with register_globals turned on, PHP does mirror the incoming session variables upon session_start() in the $HTTP_SESSION_VARS array. However, when saving the state of the session variables, if register_globals are on, it ignores the $HTTP_SESSION_VARS values for the registered session variables and instead takes them from the global scope. Since I never put $mp3com into the global scope, PHP probably thought that I "unset" $mp3com and did not save it. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php