PHP Session Variables and smarty Templates

[Brennan Mann]

Hello, I am having problems updating PHP session variables. I can set
them and see them using the following debug print_r($_SESSION); Once,
I start using smarty templates, I cannot modify the PHP session
variables. Does smarty tags overwrite or disable PHP session vars?
session_name("ShoppingCartUserSession");
session_start();
session_register("iwsUsername");
session_register("iwsFirstName");
session_register("iwsAdminLogin");
$_SESSION["iwsUsername"] = "Brennan";
Once I hit the smarty template

$smarty->display("index.html");

The session variable is now static for the entire session:
$_SESSION["iwsUsername"]

I can no longer modify and of the PHP session variables. I am not
using any PHP header/location redirects.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brennan

[petersprc]

It may be a caching issue. Try setting
session_cache_limiter('nocache').

Check out the response headers using Live HTTP Headers for FF:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829

Regards,

John Peters

On Apr 13, 3:50 pm, Brennan Mann <[e-mail]:

Hello, I am having problems updating PHP session variables. I can set
them and see them using the following debug print_r($_SESSION); Once,
I start using smarty templates, I cannot modify the PHP session
variables. Does smarty tags overwrite or disable PHP session vars?

session_name("ShoppingCartUserSession");
session_start();
session_register("iwsUsername");
session_register("iwsFirstName");
session_register("iwsAdminLogin");
$_SESSION["iwsUsername"] = "Brennan";

Once I hit the smarty template

$smarty->display("index.html");

The session variable is now static for the entire session:
$_SESSION["iwsUsername"]

I can no longer modify and of the PHP session variables. I am not
using any PHP header/location redirects.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brennan