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Mattachoo
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 Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:06 am Post subject: Sessions don't work at all? |
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I've worked with sessions before in PHP. All of a sudden, they stopped working. My webhost recently did this "migration" thing where they changed a bunch of stuff (like upgrading from PHP 4 to PHP 5, etc.). Now, sessions don't work at all. I tried a simple test to see if they worked, and guess what, they don't. Here is my example:
<?php
//first_page.php
session_start();
print("<html><pre>");
$_SESSION["MyLogin"] = "FYICenter";
print("A value saved in the session named as MyLogin.\n");
$_SESSION["MyColor"] = "Blue";
print("A value saved in the session named as MyColor.\n");
print("Click <a href=next_page.php>Next Page</a>"
." to retrieve the values.\n");
print("</pre></html>\n");
?>
<?php
//next_page.php
session_start();
print("<html><pre>");
$myLogin = $_SESSION["MyLogin"];
print("Value of MyLogin has been retrieved: ".$myLogin."\n");
$myColor = $_SESSION["MyColor"];
print("Value of MyColor has been retrieved: ".$myColor."\n");
print('</pre><a href="first_page.php">Click here to go back</a></html>\n');
?>
When I run the script, here is what I get in return:
[code=text]Value of MyLogin has been retrieved:
Value of MyColor has been retrieved:
Click here to go back\n[/code]
Absolutely nothing.
So my question is, what could be preventing my sessions from working? Also, when I click on the next_page.php link, it transfers a ?PHPSESSID variable in the URL. Maybe this has something to do with the problem? I don't know. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks! |
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samir
Joined: 12 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:41 am Post subject: |
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hi Mattachoo ,
make sure that the first line of first_page.php start with session_start() , now you run the code and check
Hope this helps you......................... |
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Mattachoo
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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Ah ha! Ok, I'm getting somewhere. It was suggested to me that I put
ini_set("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
at the start of my code. Now I get two error messages when I run my script.
Warning: Unknown: open(/var/php_sessions/sess_2a6b97f59f33efcf2366295b4e204ba5, 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 (/var/php_sessions) in Unknown on line 0
So what should I set the session.save_path to in the ini file? I am going to talk to customer support today. Hopefully they will be able to fix it. |
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samir
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