Make sure that the url is always the same. For example if a user is at a page http://mysite.com/phpscript.php and you link to http://www.mysite.com/phpscript.php (notice the www) the session might not follow because the url is different.
-----Original Message----- From: freaky deaky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] sessions terminating randomly please help Importance: Low hi i am experiencing a major problem with sessions expiring randomly in some of my apps. i will log in and start clicking around and then i will eventually arrive at a page that tells me that i'm not logged in anymore. this happens apparently randomly. i have seen it on ie6, ie for mac, netscape 4.7 for pc, and mozilla the apps are hosted on freebsd 4.7-release p2 apache 1.3.27 php version 4.2.3 compiled with --enable-trans-sid i can't go into production if there's the possibility that users will be randomly logged off. i went through all of my code over the weekend, and i don't think i can attribute this to a miscoding: when a user logs in, i create a session with session_start(); $valid_user=$_POST['username']; session_register("valid_user"); i have the following code at the top of each page to check to see if the session is valid: session_start(); $valid_user=$_SESSION['valid_user']; global $valid_user; if (session_is_registered("valid_user") {...function to spit out an error message if the session is not valid...;} i have a logout page that destroys the session session_start(); session_destroy(); i also have a javascript timer in the header of every page that redirects to the logout page if the user has been inactive for 20 minutes. i have played around with session.gc_probability, setting it to 100, but that doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. this is a huge problem. if anyone can give some advice, i'd really appreciate it. thanks -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
