$_SESSION returns empty on other pages

[v4g]

Hello,

I use $_SESSION['rand_code'] variable in order to pass the image validator info to the page where the form is and compare it with the data the user submits. The problem is that $_SESSION var arrives empty.

// [b]form.php[/b] (submits to itself to check)
session_name('name');
session_start();
.....[b] // if i echo $_SESSION['rand_code'] here even after the form has submited and the image was created, it's null[/b]
if (!isset($_POST['validator']) || ($_POST['validator'] != $_SESSION['rand_code']))  //$_POST['validator']: form text field data
{
  <error flag and echo form> 
  ...
  <img src='random.php' alt='validator' width='60' height='20' vspace='1' align='top'>)
  ...
}
else {
  <do database stuff>
}


....


// [b]random.php[/b]
session_name('name');
session_start();
...
$_SESSION['rand_code']= <the random number of the image>
..

Its strange because this script used to work until recently. The only change that I did was to turn registers global off.
My [b]php.ini[/b] is:
register_globals = Off
session.cookie_lifetime = 1

[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-2.5.10
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-2.5.10
zend_optimizer.version=2.5.10a
zend_extension = /usr/local/lib/ioncube_loader_lin_4.4.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so


Please help, thanks for reading.

[metrostars]

Did you remember to put session_start() on the file where the session as created as well?

[v4g]

[quote author=metrostars link=topic=120989.msg496804#msg496804 date=1167918456]
Did you remember to put session_start() on the file where the session as created as well?


[/quote]

YEs session_start() is on all pages.

[metrostars]

What did you use to set the varibles in the first place?

Was it just $_SESSIon['rand_code'] = blah ?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The amount of your code that you posted does not give enough information about what might be going on (you won't believe the number of times on Forums where some code was left out as being irrelevant to the problem which was actually where the problem was.)

Since you are already using $_SESSION variables, changing register_globals should have had no effect on the function of sessions, but it may have had an effect on other code involved (such as generating the random value and setting the session variable.) We cannot tell this until we can see the actual code.

Also, add the following line after your first opening <?php tag -
[code]error_reporting(E_ALL);[/code]

[v4g]

[b]SOLVED[/b]

When I deleted the php.ini that was in the public_html/test/ everything went back to normal!
Now I have only one php.ini in the public_html/

[voxanBoxer]

I'm having this same problem. My register_globals is set to On.
I am setting a session variable and if I echo it immediately it works fine. If I try to echo it on another page it doesn't display anything.

code:
session_start();
$_SESSION['var1'] = 123;
$_SESSION['var2'] = 456;
print_r($_SESSION);

[voxanBoxer]

If I go to another page and use

print_r($_SESSION)
or
echo ($_SESSION['var1'];

nothing displays