Bob. New myself but have started reading around sessions and found that you need two things enabled at the server end:
track_vars trans-sid and bruce is right - you need to make sure the session_start command is immediately after the opening PHP tag. -- ----------------------------- Michael Mason Arras People www.arraspeople.co.uk ----------------------------- "Bob Imperial" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > While I realize this is elementary to most of you, I am just getting started > with php, moving from coldfusion :) > I am currently reading through the chapter on sessions and running into a > little issue that after making many changes to my php.ini file, I continue > to get the following errors while running this: > > <?php > > session_start(); > > echo "<p>Your session ID is ".session_id()."</p>"; > > ?> > > Errors: > > Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_ff8651f382492ae56f436690d81ff124, > O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phptest\listing10.1.php on line 15 > > Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent > by (output started at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phptest\listing10.1.php:13) in > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phptest\listing10.1.php on line 15 > > Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers > already sent (output started at > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phptest\listing10.1.php:13) in > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phptest\listing10.1.php on line 15 > > Your session ID is ff8651f382492ae56f436690d81ff124 > > > Warning: Unknown(): open(/tmp\sess_ff8651f382492ae56f436690d81ff124, O_RDWR) > failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 > > Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that > the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on > line 0 > > sorry this is so elementary but have to start somewhere, I am running php 4 > on a win2k box w/IIS5. > Though this does return a session id it's obviously not persistent on > reload, an example of a session.save_path on a windows box would be great > > TIA just another old guy trying to learn new stuff. > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php