note 17458 added to function.session-register

Problem: I experienced the following when using session_register(); I tried to register some variable in a function foo like function foo($x) { session_save_path("/var/tmp/othersessions/"); session_start(); $regvar=$x session_register("regvar"); } When I looked into the session file in the directory /var/tmp/othersessions/ it always contained: sess_$PHPSESSID ----------------------- !regvar| but NO value. Solution: Finally I figured that it is CRUCIAL to put the registered variable into GLOBAL SCOPE. function foo($x) { session_save_path("/var/tmp/othersessions/"); session_start(); $GLOBALS['regvar']=$x session_register("regvar"); } finally got me session_$PHPSESSID -------------------------- regvar|s:5:"value"; -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-register.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+17458 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+17458 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+17458