On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:11 AM, tedd wrote:
Hi gang:
I found the problem I was having with sessions and want to share it
with you -- it surprised me.
To refresh -- I was having a problem with destroying a session. I
went through all the steps shown in the manual and dozens of
recommended ways of doing it I found on the net.
However, I found that while I was actually destroying the session I
wanted, another session was being created in a very unexpected way.
Now, the manual says:
"session_start() creates a session or resumes the current one based
on the current session id that's being passed via a request, such as
GET, POST, or a cookie."
From that one assumes that if you place a session_start at the
beginning of each page, then the first time it's encountered, a
session will be created and with every encounter thereafter the
established session will be used.
That's the way it works PROVIDED that you do not use the following
in your code:
header('Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever/index.php');
If you use that statement, then a new session will be created AND
you will find that you'll have two sessions working concurrently.
That creates several problems -- one of them being while you may
destroy the first session, the second will be still remain.
Now, how many people knew this?
Am I the only one who didn't?
If what you said is true tedd... I didn't know that and it could
explain some problems I've been having with a website... In a little
bit I'll read through this thread and see if I can replicate the
problem over on my server.
--
Jason Pruim
Raoset Inc.
Technology Manager
MQC Specialist
11287 James St
Holland, MI 49424
www.raoset.com
japruim@xxxxxxxxxx
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