Well, I have asked a couple of questions on this list, but they havn't
really helped alot. Maybe you can help?
My situation background is as follow:
I have always written my apps in the following way: register_globals=on,
so I allowed PHP to "generate" my variables for me on the action page,
and if I cannot use a form to "send" variables to the next pages, I
added them manually to the url.
So, then I discovered sessions and thought my probelms were solved, only
to discover that it uses cookies by default, and has to have the
--trans-sid option compiled to have PHP handle the app if you don't want
cookies ( like me, don't want cookies at all, or for that matter,
anything that relies on the client's side). So, I couldn't just jump in
and use sessions as I would not be sure that my app would work on any
PHP4 system regardless of the options it was compiled with. ( Oh, I am
writing my apps to work with register_globals=off now, so that shouldn't
be a problem).
So I started to look for a way to code with sessions that will not
require cookies nor require any special compile features; the answer
came in adding <?=SID?> to all relative URL's in my app.
Alas, that is where I'm at, and it's still not working as I would have
expected.
My problem is with the way my proposed app works/should work.
I am trying to write an app that allows the user to log in, then
add/remove projects to his list, then, when a project is selected, he
should have access to all the relevan documents in that project, again
allowing him to add/remove documents from the project here, and in the
last step, when a document is selected, allows hime to add/remove/edit
chapters to the document.
My first attempt at using sessions with this failed miserably ( keeping
in mind my approach of adding SID at end of urls). I have a "back" link
on all the pages that takes the user to the previous step(s) and thus
on the last page ( the chpaters edit/remove/add page), there is a link
to go back one level, two and three levels. Yet, using these causes
unexpected results.
I think the problem comes in with overriding the value of the session
variable.
For instance, on the first page you have a login form, on the action
page I session_register("username","password"), and that works fine even
when using the back buttons as the values are never changed. But, on the
2nd page I have the drop down select containing all the project names (
gets built with a while that reads all the project names from the
project_table) and send over the project_id.
On that actio page, I session_register("project_id"); and it also works
fine for all pages "down stream", however, when I come back to that page
to select a new project, it keeps the old variable...
At first I did nothing special in the sence of assigning a value to the
session variables, as I let the register_globals=on do it's trick, but
later I explicitly said
$project_id = $HTTP_POST_VARS["project_id"];
But that also did not overwrite the value of the session var. In the end
I was forced to again add all my variables to the end of the url,
keeping the session solely for the username and password.
I don't know if you would like me to post my code ( it is quite a bit
already ) but I would really appreciate it if someone could look at it,
and then point out where I'm missing the picture, as then I would have
two pictures that I can compare and see where my reasoning failed.
Thanks for your time.
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>What issues? Just ask.
>
>-Rasmus
>
>On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Petre wrote:
>
>>What are good books/websites about sessions.
>>I'm looking for more advanced stuff, I have the Luke Welling/Laura
>>Tompson book, and have read the manual, but I still have issues that are
>>unresolved.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
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