I have not encountered this in my 6 years of PHP coding (SESSIONS)

[2levelsabove]

Perfectly working application.

 

All of a sudden sessions stop working.

 

If I am on page 1 and make a session like

 

session_start();

 

$_SESSION['jini']="yes!!!!!";

 

I can echo the value of session on same page.

 

 

When i Go to page 2

 

and type:

 

session_start();

 

echo $_SESSION['jini'];

 

 

nothing happens.

 

 

All of a sudden the sessions are not persisting from one page to the next.

 

 

 

any insights ?

 

 

[Psycho]

Cookies disabled on the client? The client must accept the cookie with the session ID for the session to be rememebred from page to page. Check the cookies folder to see if it is even getting saved.

 

Or, is this problem persistent across many computer and browsers. What have you tried so far?

[2levelsabove]

It is persistent across many different browsers and computers.

 

It just happened today. All my user authentication and stuff stopped working.

 

To the best of my knowledge no software or patches were installed on server.

 

 

The folder is created and i see cookies being saved etc

including PHPSESSID etc

 

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Turn on full php error reporting and check for errors -

 

ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);

[2levelsabove]

I am going to try that right now!

[phpSensei]

Its two simple lines of coding, what can that possible report back other than issues that are occuring with your server. Contact your host provider for any changes made.

[2levelsabove]

OK so I moved all the files to another server that I own and cookies seem to work fine.

 

I will check with the hosting people tomorrow. Is there a certain setting I should be looking for in php.ini ?

 

 

Thanks

[2levelsabove]

Restarted the server and session issue seemed to go away.

 

Aint that odd ?

 

 

[sKunKbad]

Nothing would surprise me with the hosting issues I've dealt with lately.

[derrick1123]

Did you put

session_destroy();

at the bottom by accident?