Re: [PHP4BETA] generating new session-id on every page

You need a session_start() at the beginning of any page you use sessions on. That function will create/read the cookie in the browser to correctly pass the variables among pages. Regards, Chris Terje With Lunndal wrote: > i fear that i have misunderstood something basic, but due to the > limitations in the docs for sessions in php4, i'll plead ignorgance and > post my problem :) > > i have lots of problems with getting php4 to handle sessions correctly. > it seems that it generates a new SID every time. > > my testpage is count.php and looks like this: > > <?php > session_register("count"); > $count++; > print '<html>'; > print '<p>the counter is: '.$count.'</p>'; > print '<p><a href="count.php">increment</a></p>'; > print '</html>'; > ?> > > now if i reload the page with the reload-button in Netscape, it acts > like i want it to, incrementing the counter. but if i press the link and > thus loads the document as a new one, it sets a new session cookie. > > is there something i am missing out on here? > > i am running FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE with Apache and php4b4pl1. > i compiled Apache as the "quick install" directions in the php4 > INSTALL-file suggested. - no fancy stuff in the configure. only > --with-mysql and --enable-track-vars. > > the session section of my php.ini looks like this: > > [Session] > session.save_handler = files ; handler used to store/retrieve > data > session.save_path = /tmp ; argument passed to save_handler > ; in the case of files, this is the > ; path where data files are stored > session.use_cookies = 1 ; whether to use cookies > session.name = PHPSESSID > ; name of the session > ; is used as cookie name > session.auto_start = 0 ; initialize session on request > startup > session.cookie_lifetime = 0 ; lifetime in seconds of cookie > ; or if 0, until browser is > restarted > session.cookie_path = / ; the path the cookie is valid for > session.cookie_domain = ; the domain the cookie is valid for > session.serialize_handler = php ; handler used to serialize data > ; php is the standard serializer of > PHP > session.gc_probability = 1 ; procentual probability that the > ; 'garbage collection' process is > started > ; on every session initialization > session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 ; after this number of seconds, > stored > ; data will be seen as 'garbage' and > ; cleaned up by the gc process > session.referer_check = 1 ; check HTTP Referer to invalidate > ; externally stored URLs containing > ids > session.entropy_length = 0 ; how many bytes to read from the > file > session.entropy_file = ; specified here to create the > session id > ; session.entropy_length = 16 > ; session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom > session.cache_limiter = nocache ; set to {nocache,private,public} to > ; determine HTTP caching aspects > session.cache_expire = 180 ; document expires after n minutes > > hope someone can enlighten me. > > Terje > -- > Terje With Lunndal > KPNQwest Norway > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net