Problem with Empty $_Session

[EzaBlade]

I am looking through this forum for my answer but cannot find one so while I am still searching I decided to post my problem.

 

I am unable to get Session variables to propagate across pages. I know that it is a configuration thing but I cannot find out where.

 

I used the following 2 pages as suggested by another user on here to check whether sessions are set up: -

 

file1.php

<?php

session_start();

 

$_SESSION['mySessVar'] = 'hello I am here';

 

?>

Session variable set!  <a href="file2.php">Next Page</>

 

 

file2.php

<?php

session_start();

 

echo $_SESSION['mySessVar'];

 

?>

 

When I run this with displayErrors set in my php.ini I get: -

 

Notice: Undefined index: mySessVar in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\Test\file2.php on line 4

 

[DeathStar]

Hi Eza..

I had this problem the other day but could not find an answer..

I Need a php.ini aswell!

[per1os]

Noteably in the php.ini file, here are what my settings are.

[session]
; Handler used to store/retrieve data.
session.save_handler = files

; Argument passed to save_handler.  In the case of files, this is the path
; where data files are stored. Note: Windows users have to change this 
; variable in order to use PHP's session functions. 
; NOTE: the /tmp dir must be created and must be the full path to it
session.save_path = c:/apache/tmp 

; Whether to use cookies.
session.use_cookies = 1

; This option enables administrators to make their users invulnerable to 
; attacks which involve passing session ids in URLs; defaults to 0.
; I only like to use cookies, makes it easier.
session.use_only_cookies = 1

; Name of the session (used as cookie name).
session.name = PHPSESSID

; Initialize session on request startup.
session.auto_start = 0

; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0, until browser is restarted.
session.cookie_lifetime = 0

; The path for which the cookie is valid.
session.cookie_path = /

; The domain for which the cookie is valid.
session.cookie_domain =

; Handler used to serialize data.  php is the standard serializer of PHP.
session.serialize_handler = php

; Define the probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started
; on every session initialization.
; The probability is calculated by using gc_probability/gc_divisor,
; e.g. 1/100 means there is a 1% chance that the GC process starts
; on each request.

session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor     = 1000

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

; PHP 4.2 and less have an undocumented feature/bug that allows you to
; to initialize a session variable in the global scope, albeit register_globals
; is disabled.  PHP 4.3 and later will warn you, if this feature is used.
; You can disable the feature and the warning separately. At this time,
; the warning is only displayed, if bug_compat_42 is enabled.

session.bug_compat_42 = 0
session.bug_compat_warn = 1

; Check HTTP Referer to invalidate externally stored URLs containing ids.
; HTTP_REFERER has to contain this substring for the session to be
; considered as valid.
session.referer_check =

; How many bytes to read from the file.
session.entropy_length = 0

; Specified here to create the session id.
session.entropy_file =

;session.entropy_length = 16

;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom

; Set to {nocache,private,public,} to determine HTTP caching aspects.
; or leave this empty to avoid sending anti-caching headers.
session.cache_limiter = nocache

; Document expires after n minutes.
session.cache_expire = 180

; trans sid support is disabled by default.
; Use of trans sid may risk your users security.
; Use this option with caution.
; - User may send URL contains active session ID
;   to other person via. email/irc/etc.
; - URL that contains active session ID may be stored
;   in publically accessible computer. 
; - User may access your site with the same session ID
;   always using URL stored in browser's history or bookmarks.
session.use_trans_sid = 0

; The URL rewriter will look for URLs in a defined set of HTML tags.
; form/fieldset are special; if you include them here, the rewriter will
; add a hidden <input> field with the info which is otherwise appended
; to URLs.  If you want XHTML conformity, remove the form entry.
; Note that all valid entries require a "=", even if no value follows.
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry"

 

Those are my settings anyhow. Maybe that helps.

[EzaBlade]

Thanks for that - I checked it and all my session configurations are the same as yours.