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Bug #20136 Sessions don't work across scripts
Submitted: 2002-10-28 10:13 UTC Modified: 2002-10-28 10:24 UTC
From: elloyd19 at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Session related
PHP Version: 4.2.3 OS: Windows 2000 Pro
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-10-28 10:13 UTC] elloyd19 at yahoo dot com 
I'm using PHP running on Win2k using IIS and apache 1.3.x on separate machines.

The basic problem is that when you start a session using session_start() and register some variables using session_register(), you lose the session "link" when you jump to the other scripts/pages. 

If you check what PHP does, everything seems normal at first: it creates the session file and the vars are in there, with values and all.

The problem lies when you jump to the next page/script. Trying to get values using $_SESSION or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS produces no results. The values are still in the session file, but you can't get at them.

I don't think its my php.ini config that's causing this. Register_globals is on. And I've gone back to version 4.1.2 because sessions work on that, so I can't supply any config info.

Really sorry if this is a waste of your time in case you follow up on this and produces no results but I think there is a real problem here. I didn't find this in the advanced bug search either so I decided to post it here. There's also a lot of people stumbling about in the newsgroup this month wondering what's happening to their sessions.

Anyway, hope this helps.

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 [2002-10-28 10:24 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

Don't use session_register to register session variables, instead do $_SESSION['variable'] = 'value'; or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['variable'] = 'value';

It would also be a very good idea to try the latest CVS snapshot, it contains many fixes to the session code, which were added since the 4.2.3 release.
 
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