I checked out the PHP.ini file last night and noticed that there was a section: ; Initialize session on request startup. session.auto_start = 0 I changed it to 1 and now I seem to have session data but this has created another problem. It saves the sessions in a subdirectory "C:\PHP\sessiondata". There are a couple of hundred files in there that the system refuses to let me delete. Some of the "sessions" are 12 hours old and according to the INI files they are set to expire in 1440 seconds (session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440) These are all defaults, I've never changed anything. I'm running 4.3.4. If it help anyone to answer my question you can run PHP info from here: http://nl4x4.ca/admin/sendmail/info.php Much appreciated everyone..... FYI, Here's the whole [SESSION] section of the PHP.ini: [Session] ; Handler used to store/retrieve data. session.save_handler = files ; Argument passed to save_handler. In the case of files, this is the path ; where data files are stored. Note: Windows users have to change this ; variable in order to use PHP's session functions. ; As of PHP 4.0.1, you can define the path as: ; session.save_path = "N;/path" ; where N is an integer. Instead of storing all the session files in ; /path, what this will do is use subdirectories N-levels deep, and ; store the session data in those directories. This is useful if you ; or your OS have problems with lots of files in one directory, and is ; a more efficient layout for servers that handle lots of sessions. ; NOTE 1: PHP will not create this directory structure automatically. ; You can use the script in the ext/session dir for that purpose. ; NOTE 2: See the section on garbage collection below if you choose to ; use subdirectories for session storage session.save_path = C:\PHP\sessiondata ; argument passed to save_handler ; Whether to use cookies. session.use_cookies = 1 ; This option enables administrators to make their users invulnerable to ; attacks which involve passing session ids in URLs; defaults to 0. ; session.use_only_cookies = 1 ; Name of the session (used as cookie name). session.name = PHPSESSID ; Initialize session on request startup. - **********changed to 1 by rick 2005/03/07 7:24 pm ; to try to fix session variables not working session.auto_start = 1 ; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0, until browser is restarted. session.cookie_lifetime = 0 ; The path for which the cookie is valid. session.cookie_path = / ; The domain for which the cookie is valid. session.cookie_domain = ; Handler used to serialize data. php is the standard serializer of PHP. session.serialize_handler = php ; Define the probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started ; on every session initialization. ; The probability is calculated by using gc_probability/gc_divisor, ; e.g. 1/100 means there is a 1% chance that the GC process starts ; on each request. session.gc_probability = 1 session.gc_divisor = 100 ; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and ; cleaned up by the garbage collection process. session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 ; NOTE: If you are using the subdirectory option for storing session files ; (see session.save_path above), then garbage collection does *not* ; happen automatically. You will need to do your own garbage ; collection through a shell script, cron entry, or some other method. ; For example, the following script would is the equivalent of ; setting session.gc_maxlifetime to 1440 (1440 seconds = 24 minutes): ; cd /path/to/sessions; find -cmin +24 | xargs rm ; PHP 4.2 and less have an undocumented feature/bug that allows you to ; to initialize a session variable in the global scope, albeit register_globals ; is disabled. PHP 4.3 and later will warn you, if this feature is used. ; You can disable the feature and the warning seperately. At this time, ; the warning is only displayed, if bug_compat_42 is enabled. session.bug_compat_42 = 1 session.bug_compat_warn = 1 ; Check HTTP Referer to invalidate externally stored URLs containing ids. ; HTTP_REFERER has to contain this substring for the session to be ; considered as valid. session.referer_check = ; How many bytes to read from the file. session.entropy_length = 0 ; Specified here to create the session id. session.entropy_file = ;session.entropy_length = 16 ;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom ; Set to {nocache,private,public,} to determine HTTP caching aspects ; or leave this empty to avoid sending anti-caching headers. session.cache_limiter = nocache ; Document expires after n minutes. session.cache_expire = 180 ; trans sid support is disabled by default. ; Use of trans sid may risk your users security. ; Use this option with caution. ; - User may send URL contains active session ID ; to other person via. email/irc/etc. ; - URL that contains active session ID may be stored ; in publically accessible computer. ; - User may access your site with the same session ID ; always using URL stored in browser's history or bookmarks. session.use_trans_sid = 0 ; The URL rewriter will look for URLs in a defined set of HTML tags. ; form/fieldset are special; if you include them here, the rewriter will ; add a hidden <input> field with the info which is otherwise appended ; to URLs. If you want XHTML conformity, remove the form entry. ; Note that all valid entries require a "=", even if no value follows. url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset=" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <php@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Richard Duval'" <rick@xxxxxxxxx>; <php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 7:29 PM Subject: RE: Session Variables > You need to make sure that in your second page that you're starting the > session - if you don't do this then that second page will never have access > to those session variables. > > -M > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Duval [mailto:rick@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 7:05 PM >> To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Session Variables >> >> Newbie question, sorry but I've searched everywhere and can't >> seem to find the answer... >> >> Session variables...should be able to define in one page, >> call the next page and have it available there as well right? >> >> I can print out the session varialble in the page it was >> created, no problem Then I call the next page, try to echo >> the variable and I get: >> >> Notice: Undefined variable: HTTP_SESSION_VARS in >> C:\vhome\nl4x4\admin\sendmail\prep_mail.php on line 17 >> >> Is there something else I have to do to get these variables >> carried to the next page? >> >> The code I'm using is simply: <p><?php echo >> $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['count_ind_members']; ?></p> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> "Imagination is more important than Knowledge" --Albert Einstein-- >> > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >
