From: phpbugreport at growyouthful dot com Operating system: Apache 20051115 PHP version: 5.2.9RC1 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: php variables and session variables may not have the same name
Description: ------------ I wanted to carry the value of $newsletter from page to page. When I saved it as $_SESSION['newsletter']= $newsletter; and then got the value of the session variable later, it was not what was saved previously. It seemed to be empty or null. This bug may also have caused the page to hang, and numerous invocations of the script - my web stats showed that the script had been run several thousand times by me. However, an ob_flush() seemed to fix this problem of hanging. When I changed the session variable name to xnewsletter, it fixed the problem. Note: my php host is using php 5.2.6 and I do not have the option of asking them to change that Reproduce code: --------------- session_start(); $_SESSION['newsletter']= $newsletter; ...later... session_start(); $newsletter=$_SESSION['newsletter']; Expected result: ---------------- see Description -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47344&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47344&r=mysqlcfg
