[PHP] Sessions with register_globals = off

[Padraig Kitterick]

Am in need of help or I will loose my sanity!!! Im runnin Php 4.1.2 with
Apache 1.3.22 on Win32 with register_globals set to off. My script is as
follows:



If I check the cookie, its completely empty. Now if I change this to:



the cookie now contains:
myVar|s:9:"Something";

This is annoying as everyhwhere I read about sessions, Im told that if
register_globals is off, I shouldnt use session_register(), all I need to do
is:

$HTTP_SESSION_VARS["myVar"] = $myVar;

or

$_SESSION["myVar"] = $myVar;

but neither work :(



Finally, if I want to change the value of $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["myVar"] and
carry that change over to the next page it doesnt work. For example, i have
registered the session variable $myVar as above and can read it using
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS["myVar"]. If I do:



$HTTP_SESSION_VARS["myVar"] = "Some other text";



then $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["myVar"] contains that text, but only  for this
page! How do I use sessions then with register_globals = off???!!!




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Re: [PHP] right place to start a session?

[Padraig Kitterick]

The session_start() needs to come before any code outputs anything to 
the browser, so in your case you need to put it before the  and 
 tags:




 Here's my code:
> 
> 
>  //trying to start a session right here for the usr and pwd variables
> session_start();
> session_register("usr", "pwd");
> if (isset($login)):
> ?>
> go.  I'm in need of a good samaritan here...
> 
> Thanks!  -Kirk
> 




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Re: [PHP] session expires on server side

[Padraig Kitterick]

Aljosa Mohorovic wrote:
> session cookie exists on client side and it is set to last 5 days.
> the problem is that after some time session data expires. cookie
> on client side exists ($PHPSESSID), but session data on server side
> does not exists.
> 
> i think that the answer is something like:
> ini_set("session.cache_expire", "7200");
> but i'm not sure. i need this fast, so thnx
> to anybody with a solution.
> 
>   Aljosa
> 
> P.S.
> sorry for my bad english, here is the code:
Not too sure. Try messing with session.gc_maxlifetime. According to the 
php manual, this sets the length of time (in secs) before session data 
is cleared with the garbage collection routine.

Padraig


> --
>  $time = (60*60*24*5);
> 
> ini_set("session.cache_expire", "7200");
> 
> $date = gmdate ("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT";
> header ("Date: " . $date);
> header ("Expires: " . $date);
> header ("Last-Modified: " . $date);
> header ("Pragma: no-cache");
> header ("Cache-Control: no-cache");
> 
> session_set_cookie_params($time);
> ?>
> --
> 




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