session expires immediately

[divinecoder]

Hi,

 

Session gets expired immidately in the next page. It works fine in the same page as it gets set in the page each time the page is refreshed. Kindly help me.

 

Thanks

[ldsmike88]

Do you mean everything works fine on the first page but if you try to move session variables to another page the session isn't registered?

[kenrbnsn]

Please post some code between

tags

 

Ken

[ldsmike88]

Please explain your problem a little more so I can help you out. Thanks

 

Michael

[divinecoder]

Hi Friends,

 

Thanks for your initiatives to help me.

 

Here is my code:

<?
ob_start();
session_start();

if ($_GET['x']!="" && $_SESSION['custKey']=="")
{
$ky=$_GET['x'];
$_SESSION['custKey']=$ky;
}

if ($_GET['page'] == "login"){
include("login.php");
}
elseif ( $_GET['page'] == "cust_main" ) { 
include("custmain.php"); 
}

/*custmain.php*/
if (isset($_SESSION['custKey']))
	$cust_key=$_SESSION['custKey'];
else
	header("location:index.php?page=login&redirect=cust_main");

 

The above code works if i have the url as:

www.mydon.com/index.php?page=cust_main&x=5

 

immidiately after the above url is run if i remove x=5 and use only  www.mydon.com/index.php?page=cust_main it redirects me to login page.

 

Please let me know if am not clear in explaining you.

 

Thanks

 

 

 

[Jessica]

because each time you're resetting it.

$ky=$_GET['x'];

$_SESSION['custKey']=$ky;

 

So the first time it's set, so the session variable gets set. The second time, it's null, so the session variable is ALSO null.

[divinecoder]

sorry i missed to paste it here

 

i already have a checking there for it. I have modifed the code. Kindly check it.

[Jessica]

Try this:

 

if (isset($_GET['x']) && !isset($_SESSION['custKey']))

{

$ky=$_GET['x'];

$_SESSION['custKey']=$ky;

}

[divinecoder]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your reply. Actually i feel this is not a problem with my code, i feel some config problem but unable to figure out what it is. This code works fine locally. But not in the server. Any how i tried what you said too , still it does not works.

 

Thanks

[divinecoder]

I checked php info, it seems to be fine. THats why confused.

 

session
Session Support 	enabled
Registered save handlers 	files user sqlite
Registered serializer handlers 	php php_binary wddx

Directive	Local Value	Master Value
session.auto_start	Off	Off
session.bug_compat_42	Off	Off
session.bug_compat_warn	On	On
session.cache_expire	180	180
session.cache_limiter	nocache	nocache
session.cookie_domain	no value	no value
session.cookie_lifetime	0	0
session.cookie_path	/	/
session.cookie_secure	Off	Off
session.entropy_file	no value	no value
session.entropy_length	0	0
session.gc_divisor	100	100
session.gc_maxlifetime	1440	1440
session.gc_probability	1	1
session.hash_bits_per_character	4	4
session.hash_function	0	0
session.name	PHPSESSID	PHPSESSID
session.referer_check	no value	no value
session.save_handler	files	files
session.save_path	/var/php_sessions	/var/php_sessions
session.serialize_handler	php	php
session.use_cookies	On	On
session.use_only_cookies	Off	Off
session.use_trans_sid	1	1

[Jessica]

add print_r($_SESSION); at the top of the page, after session_start(), so we can see if the variables are really there.

[divinecoder]

i tried that too i only had "array()"

[Jessica]

Well you need to view the page more than once, like take off your x=5 part. The first time the session will be empty, so there are no values. So if you add it at the bottom too, you should see the change, the session variables got assigned.

[divinecoder]

yes, it shows when adding immidiately below where session is set but not shows when x=5 is removed from url(second time i.e first time url with x=5)

[Archadian]

in your php.ini file make sure session.use_only_cookies is set to 0...the name "use_only_cookies" kinda gives it away

[divinecoder]

In php info it shows as

 

session.use_only_cookies Off Off

 

is that fine. I have posted the phpinfo in one of the above posts

 

Thanks

[Archadian]

try setting to this session.use_only_cookies=0 if that doesn't work try making session_start(); the first thing after <?php

 

I know you said its set to off but try session.use_only_cookies=0 because i was getting Array() also and i changed that to 0 and everything works now

[divinecoder]

No it dint work. Thanks a lot for your initiatives

 

this is in the top of the page

 

<?session_start();

  ini_set('session.use_only_cookies','0');

?>

 

i tried this too

<?

  ini_set('session.use_only_cookies','0');

session_start();

?>

 

[Archadian]

oh i meant where your session.use_only_cookies is in your php.ini change to session.use_only_cookies=0

 

i tried what you did above and it didn't work for me either

 

also make sure (in your php.ini file) the session.save_path is writable and readable for your server