[SOLVED] PHP 5 Session Issue

[Syphon]

Hi all,

 

I'm having a problem using sessions. On my local Windows testing everything is fine, but once moved to the Linux "live" testing problems start coming up.

 

I create a user object and store it in the session using

 

$_SESSION["User"] = myObject;

 

ONLY the user session is being destroyed/lost during page navigation and refresh. On top of that whenever I use print_r() it displays a complete mess.

 

My theory is that the "mess" may indicate "bad storage" and PHP is automatically destroying it, or something else.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[freakstyle]

lets see some code

 

<?php 
// this doesn't work unless your defining it elsewhere?
$_SESSION["User"] = myObject;

 

and maybe the output of your print_r?

[Syphon]

       

include "../lib/Functions.php";
include "../lib/DALC.php";
include "../lib/User.php";
include "../lib/Errors.php";

session_start();
//if(isset($_SESSION["User"])){header('Location: home.php');}

if($_POST["btnSubmit"]){

	$User = new User();

	$User->LoadUserByLogin($_POST["txtLogin"]);

	if ($User->LogUserIn($_POST["txtPassword"])){

		/*session_write_close();	
		header('Location: home.php');
		exit;*/

		print "Session Data: ";
		echo "<pre>";
		print_r($_SESSION);
		echo "</pre>";


	}else{

		echo "Your password or login are incorrect";

	}

}

 

 

 

 

 

******************

 

Now within the 'User Object this is the line of code that starts the session

 

 

function StartUserSession(){

			if ( $this->UserAuthenticated == true ){

				$_SESSION["User"] = serialize($this);

				return true;

			}else{

				return false;

			}

		}

[SirChick]

$_SESSION["User"]

 

its :

 

just to try type:

 

Echo $_SESSION["User"];

 

see if it echo's

[atlanta]

yea just try using the "ECHO $_SESSION;" and see what your output is

[Syphon]

$_SESSION["User"]

 

its :

 

just to try type:

 

Echo $_SESSION["User"];

 

see if it echo's

 

The statement does echo but it's ugly. Instead of '=>' I get this mess

 

 

O:4:"User":15:{s:4:"DALC";O:4:"DALC":9:{s:16:"DataBaseUserName";s:11:"testuser";s:16:"DataBasePassword";s:16:"test123";s:12:"DataBaseHost";s:9:"localhost";s:8:"DataBase";s:11:"test";s:12:"myConnection";i:0;s:7:"myQuery";s:186:"SELECT UserID, UserLogin, UserFirstName, UserLastName, UserSALT, UserHASH, UserBiography, UserContactProfileID, UserLevelID, TimeStamp FROM users WHERE Active = 1 AND UserLogin = 'Admin'";s:8:"myResult";i:0;s:12:"myQueryCount";i:1;s:12:"errorHandler";O:6:"Errors":2:{s:13:"�Errors�Debug";b:0;s:17:"�Errors�ErrorList";a:0:{}}}s:9:"Functions";O:9:"Functions":1:{s:4:"DALC";O:4:"DALC":9:{s:16:"DataBaseUserName";s:11:"testuser";s:16:"DataBasePassword";s:16:"test123";s:12:"DataBaseHost";s:9:"localhost";s:8:"DataBase";s:11:"test";s:12:"myConnection";i:0;s:7:"myQuery";N;s:8:"myResult";s:0:"";s:12:"myQueryCount";s:1:"0";s:12:"errorHandler";O:6:"Errors":2:{s:13:"�Errors�Debug";b:0;s:17:"�Errors�ErrorList";a:0:{}}}}s:6:"UserID";s:8:"00000001";s:9:"UserLogin";s:5:"Admin";s:13:"UserFirstName";s:5:"Admin";s:12:"UserLastName";s:5:"Admin";s:8:"UserSALT";s:34:"8A0F6BE25D8C1D64ADCFA7A8C611190E06";s:8:"UserHASH";s:40:"f2d3fee60df2ee1b136833849e631a513e70217c";s:13:"UserBiography";s:5:"myBio";s:20:"UserContactProfileID";s:1:"1";s:11:"UserLevelID";s:1:"1";s:9:"TimeStamp";s:19:"2007-10-16 19:00:46";s:6:"Active";i:1;s:10:"UserLoaded";b:1;s:17:"UserAuthenticated";b:1;}

 

 

Now if I break the code by unserializing the object BEFORE the class definition is declared (_PHP_INCOMPLETE_CLASS_ Error) then it will output much cleaner.

[corbin]

It's serialized...

 

$_SESSION["User"] = serialize($this);

 

Try using unserialize on the data before using it.

[Syphon]

It's serialized...

 

$_SESSION["User"] = serialize($this);

 

Try using unserialize on the data before using it.

 

That does clean up the mess but does not solve the problem.

 

Once a user has been logged in they are redirected to the "home" page. The session and user data is outputted to this screen for testing. Upon refreshing or navigation ONLY the User session object is destroyed.

 

Will session_start(); work if it's run in an include file? All of my pages have a base "includes.php" file where session_start(); is called.

[corbin]

Oh sorry.... Didn't read the part you put about the data being deserialized later on ;p.

 

 

[Syphon]

This issue has been related to register_globals being turned "on" with the server environment. It's disabled on my machine which makes sense. My PHP variable $User was being overwritten with the serialized version of itself. Simply renaming one or the other variable fixed the issue. Or disabling register_globals could work too.