On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 19:20 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > Thank you for your help in the past. This an update on my session problems. > > Here is a simple test program. It never increments the session > counter; ie, does not detect that $_SESSION has been set. > > <?php session_start(); ?> > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > <html> > <body> > > <?php > > > if(isset($_SESSION['views'])) > $_SESSION['views']=$_SESSION['views']+1; > else > $_SESSION['views']=1; > echo "Views=". $_SESSION['views']; > ?> > </body> > </html> > > I have no idea what is wrong. > > I need to make my session variables work so that I can finish a project. > > Help and advice, please. > > Ethan Rosenberg > > MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)] > > > That code works perfectly for me, only thing I would change is the $_SESSION['views']=$_SESSION['views']+1; line to $_SESSION['views']++; for readability. If you're using Firefox, grab the Firebug plugin, which should show you the headers that are being sent to and from the server to the browser. From that, you might get an idea why the sessions don't seem to be working. Just to make sure, turn on display_errors in your php.ini file and restart Apache. Some whitespace (space or new line, for example) before that first <?php line could cause the headers to send and the sessions headers to fail (headers already sent error) which would give you the problems you're seeing now. Also, some editors have issues with the BOM (byte order marker) which could cause white-space to be perceived where there is none. If you are sure there isn't any, then try saving the script with a different character encoding to test if it is the BOM causing problems. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
