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Bug #47344 php variables and session variables may not have the same name
Submitted: 2009-02-09 03:16 UTC Modified: 2009-02-10 10:37 UTC
From: phpbugreport at growyouthful dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Session related
PHP Version: 5.2.9RC1 OS: Apache 20051115
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-02-09 03:16 UTC] phpbugreport at growyouthful dot com 
Description:
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I wanted to carry the value of $newsletter from page to page. When I saved it as
$_SESSION['newsletter']= $newsletter; 
and then got the value of the session variable later, it was not what was saved previously. It seemed to be empty or null. 

This bug may also have caused the page to hang, and numerous invocations of the script - my web stats showed that the script had been run several thousand times by me. However, an ob_flush() seemed to fix this problem of hanging.

When I changed the session variable name to xnewsletter, it fixed the problem.

Note: my php host is using php 5.2.6 and I do not have the option of asking them to change that




Reproduce code:
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session_start();
$_SESSION['newsletter']= $newsletter;

...later...

session_start();
$newsletter=$_SESSION['newsletter'];

Expected result:
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 [2009-02-10 10:37 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
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visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
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of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not
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