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Posted by Vince Morgan on 10/30/06 09:25
"The Eclectic Electric" <nospam@spamispoo.spam> wrote in message
news:PKp0h.5018$RR2.354@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
> I'm a PHP noob and just thought I'd quickly relay my latest tale of woe.
As
> an erstwhile professional programmer I like to research/fix things myself
> whenever possible, even if this means - as it did today - bashing my
> cold-addled head against a brick wall for hours on end. I'm sure everyone
> has at least one similar story.
>
> Anyway, yesterday I started to implement sessions on my site. I'd set up
a
> user on my user database as was very proud when I could log myself in.
Then
> I set about transferring the data from the user table to session variables
> and changing all the places I'd put in temporary hard-coded values. It
was
> very exciting. Then I tried to login again and that was fine, but when I
> hit the main page, it had all gone very badly wrong.
>
> To cut a long story short, I spent the best part of 24 hours (have a cold
at
> the minute so didn't sleep much) flaggin things and adding things and
taking
> things away and going through about a ton of online documentation and
> problem forums wondering why on Earth no one else had been suffering with
my
> problem - the session ID was being propagated between pages but the
> variables were not. Then suddenly I discovered the problem: I'd become
> convinced for some reason that the session global array was $S_SESSION[].
> Every supposed session variable on the site was set to this. So it was
> always showing up within the same script when I was echoing it (as it's a
> valid identifier), but not when new scripts were invoked. I'm now taking
> the rest of what's left of the week (about 20 minutes) off!!!
>
> +e
>
>
One day in the, hopefully, distant futer, I will remember this post :)
Hope you enjoyed that 20 mins to the full!
Vince Morgan
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