Hey Teck,
If the session works when you append the session id to the URL, I would
think that the session_save_path is ok and writable.
You can assure yourself that it is indeed the case, by going to your
session.save_path and checking out the contents of the session files there.
Better practice might be to create a directory under /tmp, chmod it to
700 and use that as the session.save_path.
In general, it will be the user running apache that writes to all the
paths, so at least that user (probably apache:apache) needs read, write
and execute permissions for the directory.
I don't know anything about the cookie_path, and can't find a decent
explanation as to what it does at the moment.
I would say your browser rejects cookies, or is at least setup to reject
cookies from your domain (localhost, I assume). Could you check that out ?
Greetz,
Stijn
Teck wrote:
Thanks Stijn for your advice.
I wonder if my "session.save_path /var/lib/php4" is correct. Who
should be the owner of the directory? Is there any permission settings
I need to care about?
I also consider "session.cookie_path /". After searching, it means
cookies are avaiable for all the directories under, let's say,
http://www.example.com/ . So if I work only at
http://example.com/myspace , would it be better to change the path?
What permissions are required to the path?
Sessions work when I use URL as paramers such as
http://www.example.com?SESSID=3u498q7rtq34897 . But I want to make
session cookies work.
- T
On Nov 26, 2007, at 8:12 PM, metastable wrote:
Hey,
Your session will expire, regardless of the call to
session_set_cookie_params.
If you're looking to propagate a session across time, you should look
at keeping your session data in a database (google:
session_set_save_handler, there's a good tutorial on the zend site),
then calling a table row based on a cookie you set independently of
the session.
Based on the configuration you presented, I don't see why the
following code shouldn't give you the expected results:
## test1.php ##
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['name'] = 'Kevin';
?>
<a href="test2.php">test2</a>
###########
## test2.php ##
<?php
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['name'];
// If the above doesn't work, try doing a print_r($_SESSION) and let
us know what that brings up.
?>
###########
If for some reason I am not aware off, your typical setup doesn't
automatically save the session before exiting the script, you could
try ending your scripts with:
<?php
session_write_close();
?>
As a general tip, I suggest you set your error_reporting to E_ALL on
your development machine. That would print out a notice when a
certain index or key is not set in an array.
best regards,
Stijn
Teck wrote:
Hi,
I'm working to use cookie to maintain session data across multiple
pages in PHP4.42. I have the following two scripts, where I think
the second file outputs a data in a session variable.
file 1 - test_1.php #####################
<?php
session_set_cookie_params(360 * 24 * 3600);
session_start();
$_SESSION['name'] = "Kevn";
?>
<a href="test_2.php?<php? echo SID ?>">Go next</a>
##########################################
file 2 - test_2.php ######################
<?php
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['name']; // Here I expect to show the word "Kevin"
?>
##########################################
phpinfo() tells me that
* Session Support enabled
* session.auto_start Off
* session.bug_compat_42 On
* session.bug_compat_warn On
* session.cache_expire 180
* session.cache_limiter nocache
* session.cookie_domain no value
* session.cookie_path /
* session.cookie_secure Off
* session.entropy_file no value
* session.entropy_length 0
* session.gc_divisor 100
* session.gc_maxlifetime 1440
* session.gc_probability 0
* session.name PHPSESSID
* session.referer_check no value
* session.save_handler files
* session.save_path /var/lib/php4
* session.use_cookies On
* session.use_only_cookies On
* session.use_trans_sid On
What am I missing?
In file 1, I also tried "<a href="test_2.php>Go next</a> .
I've been learning PHP using various books and websites. Still I
don't solve this issue.
Any help would be apprecaited.
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