Session problems.

[Michdd]

I have a problem keeping my session going when going to a different subdomain, how do I fix this?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.cookie-domain

[Michdd]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.cookie-domain

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-cookie-params.php more specifically is what I would need to use right? And do I need to set all the values in that function? Or can I just use the one I need? Also, if I want to set it to a subdomain like... something.example.com how would I do that?

 

Sorry, I'm kinda new to sessions.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

In order to use the session_set_cookie_params() function to set the domain (which is really specifying the hostname/subdomain because cookies are already domain specific), you would need to also set the lifetime and path parameters too. You can directly set just the session.cookie_domain using an ini_set() statement. You can also globally set session.cookie_domain in the master php.ini, a .htaccess file when php is running as an Apache module, or in a local php.ini when php is running as a CGI application.

[Michdd]

In order to use the session_set_cookie_params() function to set the domain (which is really specifying the hostname/subdomain because cookies are already domain specific), you would need to also set the lifetime and path parameters too. You can directly set just the session.cookie_domain using an ini_set() statement. You can also globally set session.cookie_domain in the master php.ini, a .htaccess file when php is running as an Apache module, or in a local php.ini when php is running as a CGI application.

Sorry if I'm making this hard. What exactly would I need to set to set the domain so it'll work on my domain/subdomain?

[Michdd]

I tried this:

 

session_set_cookie_params(30 * 60, "/", "theforbiddengates.net");

 

And it's not working, I'm trying to get it to work for a something.theforbiddengates.net

[PFMaBiSmAd]

domain

 

    Cookie domain, for example 'www.php.net'. To make cookies visable on all subdomains then the domain must be prefixed with a dot like '.php.net'.

 

[Michdd]

domain

 

    Cookie domain, for example 'www.php.net'. To make cookies visable on all subdomains then the domain must be prefixed with a dot like '.php.net'.

session_set_cookie_params(30 * 60, "/", ".theforbiddengates.net");

Doesn't work either, I put it above the start_session(); in my files, is that the right place?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The previous code has set a session cookie that will last 30 minutes. That cookie would need to be replaced by one containing the new settings before you would see any effect. Try closing your browser and revisiting your page.

 

That line of code must be executed before every session_start(). Executing a single session_start() without doing that will cause a cookie to be set using the default/php.ini settings.