Preserved Topic: phpsessions on win and *nix

is there a known fact that windows and linux handle phpsessions differently?
im developing on win where everything works fine, but on my host, which is on a redhat linux, the session is destroyed right on the next link after it has been created.
this is about the code i use:

(this comes after form submitting)
@session_start();
session_register("user");
$user='examplename';

then, when i click on another link on the page, on the next page, the session does not exist anymore.

You should check how PHP is configured on your Linux server. Sessions should work fine on both Windows & Linux...

Is it possible the sess id needs to be imbedded in the link?

-Butcher-

max,
php 4.0.6 on my host
php 4.1.1 on my local machine

except for session.save_path the configuration is identically.

butcher,
hmmm. i dont think so. that would make no sense... but maybe... hmmm. strange.

well, my guess is that your session_path on the unix machine (where the sessions break) is set incorrectly.
maybe try to show *all* errors with
error_reporting(E_ALL);

but don't forget to disable it before going live :-)

so long,
TP

butcher man you were right!
i have to forward the session id. than it works.

is there an easy way to add the sessionid to every link automatically? with hands its lots of work, when you got many scripts.

ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', '1');
this is the critical line i think. but setting them in the script does not always work because, it has also to be compiled into the php engine itself.

max, i noticed that maxworld also uses sessions. how did you handle them? add &$SID to every link?

Just to make things as easy as possible for developers I'd write a little linkto function where they just need to put in the URL

<? linkto('/wherever/page.php'); ?>

which can write out the whole link with SID for them. even the href whatever.




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good idea, bitdamaged. thanks.

Dig in the docs a bit Grumble, I think I remember there was a way to have php auto append the SID to every link...

seems it has to be compiled with the support for it enabled
"
The <?=SID?> is not necessary, if --enable-trans-sid was used to compile PHP."
Php Manual on Sessions

Tyberius Prime

Grumble

I think Bitdamaged has a good way to go...

A simple function that appends <?=SID?> to each link should work nicely.

-Butcher-

Grumble, I'm adding SID parameter manually in a similar way like Bitdamaged. I have a few functions that manipulate with URLs. Also note that SID is only added if sessions are enabled, so that search engines can index my web site properly (sessions are enabled only when someone uses one of the common web browsers to view my site).