Session problem

[Fran García]

I´ve a big problem with the session variables. I load audio files into
media player using as src a php script that check some session
variables and then load the audio file, something like that

<mediaplayer src="displayfil e.php?filename= myaudiofile.mp3 ">

but in the script displayfile.php , I cannot access to the session
variables. Is there a way to see the session variables in the example
above?

Thanks in advance!

Fran García

[Erwin Moller]

Re: Session problem

Fran García wrote:
[color=blue]
> I´ve a big problem with the session variables. I load audio files into
> media player using as src a php script that check some session
> variables and then load the audio file, something like that
>
> <mediaplayer src="displayfil e.php?filename= myaudiofile.mp3 ">
>
> but in the script displayfile.php , I cannot access to the session
> variables. Is there a way to see the session variables in the example
> above?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Fran García[/color]

Hi,

You above example has no sessionvariable s.
Most of the time the SESSION is kept by a cookie, but as part of the URL it
is also possible.

In the last case you would expect something like:
<mediaplayer
src="displayfil e.php?filename= myaudiofile.mp3 &PHPSESSID=gjfd s6a75fsda6f4">

I would advise you first to check if session works as you expect, and then
start working on streaming the audiofiles.

This is a good place to start:

http://nl3.php.net/session

Many things can go wrong when using sessions, to name a few:
- different domains do not share cookie and session
- you force session in cookie (via php.ini) but visitor blocks cookies.
- PHP cannot write sessionfiels away to some dir because of permissions.
etc.etc.

So maybe the thing to do is first figuring out with a simple script IF your
sessions work.

Good luck!

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Fran García]

Re: Session problem

Yes, the sessions works right, but I think that the problem is that the
displayfile.php is inside a media player object and it cannot inherit
the session variables or something like that.

I´m trying right now to read the session variables passing it through
the GET variables.

[Fran García]

Re: Session problem

Fran García wrote:[color=blue]
> Yes, the sessions works right, but I think that the problem is that the
> displayfile.php is inside a media player object and it cannot inherit
> the session variables or something like that.
>
> I´m trying right now to read the session variables passing it through
> the GET variables.
>[/color]
I´ve fixed my own problem passing the session_id into a get string and
then loading in the script the session with the name passed through the
GET string.

<mediaplayer
src="displayfil e.php?session_i d=af24234ls&fil ename=myaudiofi le.mp3">

and then in the displayfile.php

session_id($ses sion_id);
session_start() ;