'./configure' '--prefix=/var/php' '--with-config-file-path=/var/php' '--enable-track-vars'
                                   '--with-apxs=/var/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-ftp' '--with-xml'
                                   '--with-mcrypt=/var/libmcrypt-2.4.15' '--enable-sigchild'
                                   '--with-oci8=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7' '--with-pgsql=/var/postgresql-7.1.3'
                                   '--with-mysql=/var/mysql-3.23.41'
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We use sessions stored in the database, and so we have this code in our auto_prepend_file:

           include_once("session.inc");
           session_start();

session.inc defines functions sessionOpen, sessionClose, sessionRead, sessionWrite, sessionDestroy, sessionGC, and at the very end of the php code in that file, it does this call:

session_set_save_handler(
        "sessionOpen",
        "sessionClose",
        "sessionRead",
        "sessionWrite",
        "sessionDestroy",
        "sessionGC");

We wanted to change sessions from being saved in the database to being saved in files, and noticed today that even when we set session.save_handler = files in php.ini, the above call to session_set_save_handler seems to still take effect and force sessions to be stored in the database.  Here's a quote from the set_session_save_handler documentation:

                               Note: You must set the configuration option session.save_handler to user in your php.ini file for
                               session_set_save_handler() to take effect. 

Is this a bug in PHP 4.0.6?

Thanks.

Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
http://www.missioncriticallinux.com