Do you have session_auto_start set to on? If so do this and see if things change. IIS6 does not suffer the same problem as IIS5 in this area Alan
"B.A.T. Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well, but it does not seams to work that way under ISS6.0. > > But I need to test this a bit more before I can make any strong statements > about it. > > What I seen, however, is this: I have a page that requires one to login. If > one login on this page, and then try to change to another page, then I need > to redo the login procedure again - so it appears like the session is not > persisten over different pages here. However, I need to do some other test > in order to see that I haven't missed some silly things before I can state > that this is really the case. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Donatas > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 2004-02-16 11:41 > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: header-session problem > > bullshit, I have apache and php setup as CGI... in most of my scripts > that require to store unsensitive user info while he's online I use > sessions. I never used PHPSESSID as well... > > replying to orriginal poster: > if you would add session_start(); to your first page I bet things would > start working. That's related to the fact mentioned before that > cookies/sessions do not save/start if you use redirect. Starting them > earlier would do the thing. > > /Donny > > > Alan McDonald wrote: > > >session is a session ID and it's stored as a cookie. cookies persist > but > >when you setup php as a cgi it's a cgi appliaction - that means nothing > >persists in the context of the application running on the server. > Unlike > >e.g. ASP where an application and a session has a persistance layer. > WHen > >you make an application start point on IIS with ASP and have a > global.asa > >file - this signifiies an application start point. You will notice that > you > >can "unload" the application and set new application and new session > >variables each time you close the browser and staert a new session. > With > >CGI - that's not the case. You need to manage your own session with > cookies > >and the PHPSESSID cookie is where you start to do that. > >Alan > > > >Alan > > > >"B.A.T. Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >>Are saying that session can not persist over different pages? > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Alan McDonald > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: 2004-02-16 10:57 > >>Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re: header-session problem > >> > >>I'm afraid that's not what the seesion is all about. > >>The session is a unique value. It is assigned to a cookie if specified > >>in php.ini or is tagged along in all your URLs as a query string or > $_GET > >>and has the name PHPSESSID by default unless you change it. > >>If you want to save something fro page 1 and retrieve it in page 3, > then > >>you will need to do the same hing and store this value as a cookie. > >>$_COOKIE['cookiename'] will retrieve it. > >>But there are some provisos. You cannot assign a cookie value and set > >>header("Location.. etc on the same page, the cookie will not be set. > You > >>need to set a cookie and let the page return to the browser. > >>That's with Windows environments anyway. > >> > >>Alan > >> > >> > > > > > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
