RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: header-session problem

Well, but it does not seams to work that way under ISS6.0. But I need to test this a bit more before I can make any strong statements about it. What I seen, however, is this: I have a page that requires one to login. If one login on this page, and then try to change to another page, then I need to redo the login procedure again - so it appears like the session is not persisten over different pages here. However, I need to do some other test in order to see that I haven't missed some silly things before I can state that this is really the case. -----Original Message----- From: Donatas To: php-windows@lists.php.net Sent: 2004-02-16 11:41 Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: header-session problem bullshit, I have apache and php setup as CGI... in most of my scripts that require to store unsensitive user info while he's online I use sessions. I never used PHPSESSID as well... replying to orriginal poster: if you would add session_start(); to your first page I bet things would start working. That's related to the fact mentioned before that cookies/sessions do not save/start if you use redirect. Starting them earlier would do the thing. /Donny Alan McDonald wrote: >session is a session ID and it's stored as a cookie. cookies persist but >when you setup php as a cgi it's a cgi appliaction - that means nothing >persists in the context of the application running on the server. Unlike >e.g. ASP where an application and a session has a persistance layer. WHen >you make an application start point on IIS with ASP and have a global.asa >file - this signifiies an application start point. You will notice that you >can "unload" the application and set new application and new session >variables each time you close the browser and staert a new session. With >CGI - that's not the case. You need to manage your own session with cookies >and the PHPSESSID cookie is where you start to do that. >Alan > >Alan > >"B.A.T. Svensson" <B.A.T.Svensson@lumc.nl> wrote in message >news:D291F33C586C8E48B95C26F8C805513A01A3D934@mail5.lumc.nl... > > >>Are saying that session can not persist over different pages? >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Alan McDonald >>To: php-windows@lists.php.net >>Sent: 2004-02-16 10:57 >>Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re: header-session problem >> >>I'm afraid that's not what the seesion is all about. >>The session is a unique value. It is assigned to a cookie if specified >>in php.ini or is tagged along in all your URLs as a query string or $_GET >>and has the name PHPSESSID by default unless you change it. >>If you want to save something fro page 1 and retrieve it in page 3, then >>you will need to do the same hing and store this value as a cookie. >>$_COOKIE['cookiename'] will retrieve it. >>But there are some provisos. You cannot assign a cookie value and set >>header("Location.. etc on the same page, the cookie will not be set. You >>need to set a cookie and let the page return to the browser. >>That's with Windows environments anyway. >> >>Alan >> >> > > >