PHP Session not always being recognized

[woody79]

I have a page that sets a two sessions and one that reads them. The page that reads them looks like this:

<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['maxauth']))
{
	print_r(unserialize($_SESSION['maxinfo']));
}
else
{
	echo "No";
}
?>

When I refresh the page it sometimes gives me

print_r(unserialize($_SESSION['maxinfo']));

, but otherwise No. I have refreshed the page 10 times and 2 times out of 10 the session was recognized. My dev server (Windows-PHP5) gets 10 out of 10, but my actual host (Unix-PHP4) gets 2 out of 10. Why is this?

[discomatt]

Could be a cookie issue? Is this isolated to your machine or a problem with multiple clients?

[DeanWhitehouse]

echo session_id(); under session_start(); and check if that shows all ten times.

[woody79]

I performed that little test and the session id shows all the time.

[DeanWhitehouse]

Ok, so that means the session start is always there, have you checked if the session is there

 

try

session_start();
echo $_SESSION['maxinfo'];

[geudrik]

Aye, make sure your session variable is actually declared.