Posted by Rik Wasmus on 11/19/07 19:39

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:38:05 +0100, Rik Wasmus
<luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:25:25 +0100, Matthew <matthew@spamkiller.com>
> wrote:
>> My server runs PHP version 4.4.3.
>>
>> I'm successfully creating a session and can set and retrieve my own
>> session variables.
>
> OK
>
>> As far as I can tell the $_SESSION['uid'] variable should be created
>> automatically when session_start() is called. When I retrieve this
>> variable however it is empty.
>
> Nope. Unless you name it that way.
> <http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php>
>
> The default 'session.name' is PHPSESSID, which you can normally will NOT
> find in $_SESSION, but in one of the $_REQUEST arrays (and thus
> obviously in $_REQUEST). $_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'] _if_ the session works
> with cookies, optionally in the $_POST or $_GET array in case of a
> transparant session id (which is not recommandable).
>
> If you choose another name for a session, this should be done with
> session_name('custom_name_of_session') BEFORE the call to
> session_start():
> <http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.session-name.php>

Addendum: if you're just curious what your session id actually is, use
session_id().


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Rik Wasmus

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