Thanks for your answers people; but i'm still having the problem, ¿any approach
to the reason?. Remember everything works fine in on-line servers, so it may
not be a problem of the code, but a config. one;cheers,
Nicolas.
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:58:15 +0530
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Re: problem with sessions config.
>
> N . Boatswain wrote:
> > Hello guys; i'm having a problem with session behavior; i'm going straight
> > to it, but first some considerations:
> > PHP Version 5.2.5IIF 5.1Running on localhost (XP machine)I start sessions
> > at the top of every page.
> >
> > A the start of a test page, just as example, i do the assignment:
> > $_SESSION["username"] = "aaa";
> >
> > At the end of the same page i print it's value: echo $_SESSION["username"];
> >
> > And i get the layout: "aaa", as expecteed.
> >
> > Then I redirect to another page. On that one, after initializating the
> > session ("session_start();") print again the $_SESSION["username"] content
> > and the result is empty. If i try the same code on a server (all this is on
> > my local machine), the code works as expected; so i think it is a
> > configuration problem, here is my php.ini part that correspond to session
> > configuration, so you can tell my if i'm doing anything wrong, long
> > comments where removed:
> >
> > [Session]; Handler used to store/retrieve data.session.save_handler =
> > files;session.save_path = "/tmp" BC 13/12/07session.save_path="/tmp";
> > Whether to use cookies.session.use_cookies = 1;session.cookie_secure = ;
> > This option enables administrators to make their users invulnerable to;
> > attacks which involve passing session ids in URLs; defaults to
> > 0.session.use_only_cookies = 1; Name of the session (used as cookie
> > name).session.name = PHPSESSID; Initialize session on request
> > startup.session.auto_start = 1; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0,
> > until browser is restarted.session.cookie_lifetime = 0; The path for which
> > the cookie is valid.session.cookie_path = /; The domain for which the
> > cookie is valid.session.cookie_domain =; Whether or not to add the httpOnly
> > flag to the cookie, which makes it inaccessible to browser scripting
> > languages such as JavaScript.session.cookie_httponly = ; Handler used to
> > serialize data. php is the standard serializer of PHP.session.serialize_ha
> ndler = php; Define the probability that the 'garbage collection' process is
> started; on every session initialization.; The probability is calculated by
> using gc_probability/gc_divisor,; e.g. 1/100 means there is a 1% chance that
> the GC process starts; on each request.session.gc_probability =
> 1session.gc_divisor = 1000; After this number of seconds, stored data
> will be seen as 'garbage' and; cleaned up by the garbage collection
> process.session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440session.bug_compat_42 =
> 0session.bug_compat_warn = 1; Check HTTP Referer to invalidate externally
> stored URLs containing ids.; HTTP_REFERER has to contain this substring for
> the session to be; considered as valid.session.referer_check =; How many
> bytes to read from the file.session.entropy_length = 0; Specified here to
> create the session id.session.entropy_file =;session.entropy_length =
> 16;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom; Set to {nocache,private,public,} to
> determine HTTP caching aspects; or leave this empt
> y to avoid sending anti-caching headers.session.cache_limiter = nocache;
> Document expires after n minutes.session.cache_expire =
> 180session.use_trans_sid = 0; Select a hash function; 0: MD5 (128 bits); 1:
> SHA-1 (160 bits)session.hash_function = 0; Define how many bits are stored in
> each character when converting; the binary hash data to something readable.;;
> 4 bits: 0-9, a-f; 5 bits: 0-9, a-v; 6 bits: 0-9, a-z, A-Z, "-",
> ","session.hash_bits_per_character = 5; The URL rewriter will look for URLs
> in a defined set of HTML tags.; form/fieldset are special; if you include
> them here, the rewriter will; add a hidden field with the info which
> is otherwise appended; to URLs. If you want XHTML conformity, remove the
> form entry.; Note that all valid entries require a "=", even if no value
> follows.url_rewriter.tags =
> "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="
> >
> > Well, thanks and sorry for my english;
> >
> > Nicolás.
> >
> >
> >
> > ___
