basic session question

[Marc E]

All,
I've read the docs on session handling but still can't figure this one
out. I'm guessing it's a setting in php.ini or something.
I've inherited this code from someone, and it's got a typical login/set
session/redirect. on the live server, it works fine. on my local computer,
it doesn't.

in the login script, the session is being created correctly, as print_r()
shows me. but when it redirects to the next page, I get "Undefined variable:
_SESSION" when i do a print_r on it. I've added session_start() to that
page, but then all I get is an empty session array.

Here's the pertinent chunk of code i inherited in the login page:

// Start the session, register the values & redirect.
session_name ('YourVisitID');
//ini_set ('session.use_cookies', 0);
session_start();
$_SESSION['first_name'] = $row[1];
$_SESSION['user_id'] = $row[0];
print_r($_SESSION);
//exit();
header ("Location: http://" . $root . "/photogallery/admin.php?" .
SID);
exit();
Any of this sound like a familiar problem?

Thanks a lot.

Marc

[Marc E]

figured this one out. it was that YourVisitID. I didn't see any calls to
session_start() on any of this dude's other pages, but the docs told me i
needed it so i started putting them in, but it didn't fix it. once i got
rid of that session_name() call, things started working. now i understand
what's going on.


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All,
I've read the docs on session handling but still can't figure this one
out. I'm guessing it's a setting in php.ini or something.
I've inherited this code from someone, and it's got a typical login/set
session/redirect. on the live server, it works fine. on my local computer,
it doesn't.

in the login script, the session is being created correctly, as print_r()
shows me. but when it redirects to the next page, I get "Undefined
variable: _SESSION" when i do a print_r on it. I've added session_start()
to that page, but then all I get is an empty session array.

Here's the pertinent chunk of code i inherited in the login page:

// Start the session, register the values & redirect.
session_name ('YourVisitID');
//ini_set ('session.use_cookies', 0);
session_start();
$_SESSION['first_name'] = $row[1];
$_SESSION['user_id'] = $row[0];
print_r($_SESSION);
//exit();
header ("Location: http://" . $root . "/photogallery/admin.php?" .
SID);
exit();
Any of this sound like a familiar problem?

Thanks a lot.

Marc