Session termination issue

[TristaSD]

Hi,

I'm trying to tweak the logout script on my web projects. When I point
users to a logout.php page containing the session_destroy () function, I
get the "Trying to destroy uninitialized session" error.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Bent Stigsen]

Re: Session termination issue

TristaSD wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to tweak the logout script on my web projects. When I point
> users to a logout.php page containing the session_destroy () function, I
> get the "Trying to destroy uninitialized session" error.[/color]

Gets initialized with "session_st art"

See the example:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-destroy.php

--
/Bent

[TristaSD]

Re: Session termination issue

I tried to follow php.net manual to the best of my ability, but I'm
getting two errors now:

Warning: session_start() : Cannot send session cache limiter - headers
already sent
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by

All I want to do is create a login page that starts the session, and a
logout page that destroys the session. I'm having a hell of a time.

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Session termination issue

Message-ID: <1150645209.331 434.17340@f6g20 00cwb.googlegro ups.com> from
TristaSD contained the following:
[color=blue]
>I tried to follow php.net manual to the best of my ability, but I'm
>getting two errors now:
>
>Warning: session_start() : Cannot send session cache limiter - headers
>already sent
>Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
>
>All I want to do is create a login page that starts the session, and a
>logout page that destroys the session. I'm having a hell of a time.[/color]
Logout.php
<?php
session_start() ;
session_destroy ();
header("Locatio n: login.php");
exit;
?>




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[Bent Stigsen]

Re: Session termination issue

TristaSD wrote:
[color=blue]
> I tried to follow php.net manual to the best of my ability, but I'm
> getting two errors now:
>
> Warning: session_start() : Cannot send session cache limiter - headers
> already sent
> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by[/color]

Make sure you don't have any output before calling session_start. Not even a
space or a newline.
[color=blue]
> All I want to do is create a login page that starts the session, and a
> logout page that destroys the session. I'm having a hell of a time.[/color]

You'll get there. Just remember that session_start needs to be called in all
pages that uses the session-functions or access the session data.

--
/Bent

[David Haynes]

Re: Session termination issue

TristaSD wrote:[color=blue]
> I tried to follow php.net manual to the best of my ability, but I'm
> getting two errors now:
>
> Warning: session_start() : Cannot send session cache limiter - headers
> already sent
> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
>
> All I want to do is create a login page that starts the session, and a
> logout page that destroys the session. I'm having a hell of a time.
>[/color]
Post your code. It's the fastest way to get help.

In general, your problem is that some character data (could be as simple
as a blank or carriage-return) is being sent before your session_start() .

-david-

[David Haynes]

Re: Session termination issue

Geoff Berrow wrote:[color=blue]
> Message-ID: <1150645209.331 434.17340@f6g20 00cwb.googlegro ups.com> from
> TristaSD contained the following:
>[color=green]
>> I tried to follow php.net manual to the best of my ability, but I'm
>> getting two errors now:
>>
>> Warning: session_start() : Cannot send session cache limiter - headers
>> already sent
>> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
>>
>> All I want to do is create a login page that starts the session, and a
>> logout page that destroys the session. I'm having a hell of a time.[/color]
> Logout.php
> <?php
> session_start() ;
> session_destroy ();
> header("Locatio n: login.php");
> exit;
> ?>[/color]

My logout is a little more involved:

<?php
require_once('a utoload.inc');
require_once('r edirect.inc');

session_start() ;

$sessionName = session_name();
$sessionCookie = session_get_coo kie_params();

session_destroy ();

setcookie($sess ionName, false, $sessionCookie['lifetime'],
$sessionCookie['path'], $sessionCookie['domain'],
$sessionCookie['secure']);

redirect('/ctrl/login.ctrl.php' );
?>

-david-

[TristaSD]

Re: Session termination issue

Thanks, all. It seems to work now, but some things are still very odd.
For example, when I go to www.mysite.com/session, I get "session
doesn't exist". When I refresh, however, I get the session id. I get
the session ID when I go to www.mysite.com/session/index.php directly.
Is it a default page issue? Why is the session started when I go to
index.php, but not /session/ ?

Here's the code:

*** index.php ***
<?session_start ();?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Sessio n Testing</title>
</head>

<body>
<? echo ($PHPSESSID ? "Session $PHPSESSID exists. You can now <a
href=\"logout.p hp\">log out</a>." : "Session does not exist."); ?>
</body>
</html>

*** logout.php ***
<?session_start ();
session_destroy ();
//header("Locatio n: index.php");
echo "Session destroyed.";
exit;?>

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Sessio n Destrustion</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

[Nico]

Re: Session termination issue

Many "random" errors on php sessions are caused when tring to read the
same file from two different process (and one has the session's file
locked).
Have you tried closing the session for output (leaving it open only for
reads) with session_write_c lose()? I solved many session issues witht
this.

PS: I don't remember the exact function name