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  • PulsarSL@gmail.com
    #1

    Sessions not Working on WAMP

    Hey

    I have a WAMP setup (windows/apache/mysql/php). I'm running the latest
    version of all of them with a default installation of all of them. PHP
    works great with apache (as a module, not cgi), except that sessions
    aren't working. The script at the bottom of this post never increments
    my hit count. Do I need to turn sessions on somehow in php.ini?

    Thanks,

    PulsarSL



    ----

    Works great on a remote web server I have, so it's not the script...

    ----

    <?php
    // Initialize a session. This call either creates
    // a new session or re-establishes an existing one.
    session_start( );

    // If this is a new session, then the variable
    // $count will not be registered
    if (!session_is_re gistered("count "))
    {
    session_registe r("count");
    session_registe r("start");

    $count = 0;
    $start = time( );
    }
    else
    {
    $count++;
    }

    $sessionId = session_id( );

    ?>
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
    "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" >
    <html>
    <head><title>Se ssions</title></head>
    <body>
    <p>This page points at a session
    (<?=$sessionId? >)
    <br>count = <?=$count?>.
    <br>start = <?=$start?>.
    <p>This session has lasted
    <?php
    $duration = time( ) - $start;
    echo "$duration" ;
    ?>
    seconds.
    </body>
    </html>

    ----

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    • vdP
      #2
      Re: Sessions not Working on WAMP

      PulsarSL@gmail. com wrote:[color=blue]
      > Hey
      >
      > I have a WAMP setup (windows/apache/mysql/php). I'm running the latest
      > version of all of them with a default installation of all of them. PHP
      > works great with apache (as a module, not cgi), except that sessions
      > aren't working. The script at the bottom of this post never increments
      > my hit count. Do I need to turn sessions on somehow in php.ini?
      >
      > Thanks,
      >
      > PulsarSL[/color]
      [color=blue]
      > ----
      >
      > Works great on a remote web server I have, so it's not the script...
      >
      > <?php
      > // Initialize a session. This call either creates
      > // a new session or re-establishes an existing one.
      > session_start( );
      >
      > // If this is a new session, then the variable
      > // $count will not be registered
      > if (!session_is_re gistered("count "))
      > {
      > session_registe r("count");
      > session_registe r("start");
      >
      > $count = 0;
      > $start = time( );
      > }[/color]

      If you use the latest version of WAMP or PHP, you are using PHP 5. This
      means that register_global s is disabled by default. Therefore you should
      use the superglobal $_SESSION, instead of session_is_regi stered and
      session_registe r. Quoting the manual-page of session_registe r at php.net
      ( http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/functio...n-register.php)
      "If you want your script to work regardless of register_global s, you
      need to instead use the $_SESSION array as $_SESSION entries are
      automatically registered. If your script uses session_registe r(), it
      will not work in environments where the PHP directive register_global s
      is disabled."

      Using $_SESSION the code can be rewritten as (may contain typos)
      if (!isset($_SESSI ON['count'])){
      $_SESSION['count']=0;
      $_SESSION['start']=time();
      } else {
      $_SESSION['count']++;
      }

      Hope this helps.

      vdP

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        • PulsarSL@gmail.com
          #3
          Re: Sessions not Working on WAMP

          [color=blue]
          >
          > Hope this helps.
          >[/color]

          Yes, thank you.

          PulsarSL

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