$_SESSION

[Renlok]

Im a developer of an auction script and one of the users has reported the sessions not working properly on his server like when a session is set on the next page it isnt there when it should be.

 

Could anyone give me some ideas of why this may be happening

[revraz]

Not without seeing how you set the session.

 

Could be a domain parameter issue.

[Renlok]

just like

session_start();
$_SESSION['this'] = 'that';

 

then you get to the next page by submitting a form

[waynew]

Have you tried to do some debugging? Have any specific errors shown up?

[revraz]

Make sure when you move from page to page, you use Relative links and not Absolute.  If you set the session on say mysite.com and then navigate them to www.mysite.com, that is considered another domain and the session isn't passed.  So see if that is the problem.

[Renlok]

its something to do with the function

function addauction(){
global $DBPrefix, $_SESSION, $userrec, $a_starts, $a_ends, $payment_text, $system;

return "INSERT INTO " . $DBPrefix . "auctions VALUES (NULL, " . $userrec['id'] . ", '" . $system->cleanvars($_SESSION['SELL_title']) . "', '" .  $a_starts . "', '" . addslashes($_SESSION['SELL_description']) . "', '" . $system->cleanvars($_SESSION['SELL_pict_url']) . "', " . $_SESSION['SELL_sellcat'] . ", '" . $_SESSION['SELL_minimum_bid'] . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_shipping_cost'] . "', '" . (($_SESSION['SELL_with_reserve']=="yes")?$_SESSION['SELL_reserve_price']:"0") . "', '" . (($_SESSION['SELL_with_buy_now'] == 'yes') ? $_SESSION['SELL_buy_now_price'] : 0) . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_atype'] . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_duration'] . "', " . floatval($_SESSION['SELL_customincrement']) . ", '" . $_SESSION['SELL_shipping'] . "', '" . $payment_text . "', " . (($_SESSION['SELL_international']) ? 1 : 0) . ", '" . $a_ends . "', 0, 0, " . (($_SESSION['SELL_file_uploaded']) ? 1 : 0) . ", " . $_SESSION['SELL_iquantity'] . ", 0, 'n', " . intval($_SESSION['SELL_relist']) . ", 0, 0, 'n', '" . $system->cleanvars($_SESSION['SELL_shipping_terms']) . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_buy_now_only'] . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_adultonly'] . "')";
}

 

as if i put print_r($_SESSION); before i call the function it displays al the sessions but if i put it inside the function nothing shows.

[mrMarcus]

its something to do with the function

function addauction(){
global $DBPrefix, $_SESSION, $userrec, $a_starts, $a_ends, $payment_text, $system;

return "INSERT INTO " . $DBPrefix . "auctions VALUES (NULL, " . $userrec['id'] . ", '" . $system->cleanvars($_SESSION['SELL_title']) . "', '" .  $a_starts . "', '" . addslashes($_SESSION['SELL_description']) . "', '" . $system->cleanvars($_SESSION['SELL_pict_url']) . "', " . $_SESSION['SELL_sellcat'] . ", '" . $_SESSION['SELL_minimum_bid'] . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_shipping_cost'] . "', '" . (($_SESSION['SELL_with_reserve']=="yes")?$_SESSION['SELL_reserve_price']:"0") . "', '" . (($_SESSION['SELL_with_buy_now'] == 'yes') ? $_SESSION['SELL_buy_now_price'] : 0) . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_atype'] . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_duration'] . "', " . floatval($_SESSION['SELL_customincrement']) . ", '" . $_SESSION['SELL_shipping'] . "', '" . $payment_text . "', " . (($_SESSION['SELL_international']) ? 1 : 0) . ", '" . $a_ends . "', 0, 0, " . (($_SESSION['SELL_file_uploaded']) ? 1 : 0) . ", " . $_SESSION['SELL_iquantity'] . ", 0, 'n', " . intval($_SESSION['SELL_relist']) . ", 0, 0, 'n', '" . $system->cleanvars($_SESSION['SELL_shipping_terms']) . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_buy_now_only'] . "', '" . $_SESSION['SELL_adultonly'] . "')";
}

 

as if i put print_r($_SESSION); before i call the function it displays al the sessions but if i put it inside the function nothing shows.

at any point in the script are you calling the function addauction()?  becuase yes, if you have "print_r($_SESSION);" before the function it will be printed whether you call the function addauction() or not.

 

just a thought.