I am experiencing this EXACT SAME PROBLEM after upgrading PHP from 4.0.4pl2
to 4.0.5. It is ROYALLY TICKING ME OFF!!! I can't complete my site until
this stupid functionality is FIXED!!!! WTF!
""Johnson, Kirk"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Jennifer, there are at least two of us totally confused. I did a copy and
> paste of your code and got the expected results:
>
> session id is afb1f9e27afc752f7d9e96e096ca2209
> session_register worked.
> testing is a registered variable
>
> with the contents of /tmp/sess_afb1f9e27afc752f7d9e96e096ca2209 being:
>
> testing|s:24:"Let's see if this works.";
>
> I then tried your code with register_globals = off. Interestingly, I got
> "session_register worked" even though $testing was not registered (it
can't
> be registered with register_globals off).
>
> I see nothing wrong with your code, so... some thoughts:
>
> 1. What browser are you using? I, and others, have seen erratic results
with
> sessions using Netscape 4.x. If this is your browser, try your code with
> another browser, if possible.
>
> 2. This is a longshot, but who is PHP running as? By default, it is
nobody.
> In any case, check that whomever PHP is running as has write permission to
> /tmp.
>
> 3. I cannot think of any other configuration settings in php.ini that
might
> be the trouble, since turning register_globals off does not reproduce your
> results.
>
> I am stumped.
>
> Kirk
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:55 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] session_register()
> >
> >
> > "Johnson, Kirk" wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Do you need to register a variable with the session before you
> > > > assign it a value?
> > >
> > > Not in my experience.
> > >
> > > > session_register should return true if the variable was
> > > > successfully registered?
> > >
> > > It returns "1".
> > >
> > > > The variable name and it's value should be written to the file
> > > > with the same name as session_id()?
> > >
> > > Yes, here's a sample from a session file: superUser|s:3:"Yes";
> > > Here's a sample session filename:
> > sess_01bc2e24aa5291300887948f0af74899
> >
> >
> > This is all what I thought, but I am still having problems and I
> > don't have a clue what I am missing. Here's an example that I
> > have been paying with for testing.
> >
> > page1.php contains
> > <?php
> > session_start();
> > echo "session id is ".session_id()."<br>\n";
> > if (session_register("testing")) {
> > echo "session_register worked.<br>\n";
> > }
> > else {
> > echo "session_register did not work<br>\n";
> > }
> > if (session_is_registered("testing")) {
> > echo "testing is a registered variable<br>\n";
> > }
> > else {
> > echo "testing is not a registered variable<br>\n";
> > }
> > $testing = "Let's see if this works.";
> > ?>
> > <a href="page2.php?<?=SID?>">Go to next page.</a>
> >
> >
> > The output of the above page, gives me
> > session id is e35c2893382e28a14fa0455302edb06e
> > session_register did not work
> > testing is a registered variable
> > Go to next page.
> >
> >
> > and page2.php contains
> > <?php
> > session_start();
> > echo "session id is ".session_id()."<br>\n";
> > echo "Testing: $testing<br>\n";
> > ?>
> >
> >
> > The output of page2 gives me
> > session id is e35c2893382e28a14fa0455302edb06e
> > Testing:
> >
> > I am totally confused. First off, why isn't it registering the
> > variable? There is a file named e35c2893382e28a14fa0455302edb06e
> > in my /tmp directory, but it is empty.
> >
> > Second, if it isn't registering the variable then why is
> > session_is_registered("testing") returning true?
> >
> > Jennifer
> >
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