Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/11/05 23:22

Japhy wrote:
> hello,
> I am finding that setting session variables is very unreliable (for
> me).
>
> Am I doing something wrong with syntax :
> $contnum = getrequest("ID1") ; (ID1 is passed in the URL)
> $_SESSION['sess_contnum']= $contnum ;
>
> My program will randomly start to fail.
> If I echo $sess_contnum, sometimes it is set, sometimes not.
>
> I am using Apache 2.0.53 as a web server. Are there any parameters I
> should be aware of (more memory allocated for SV's or ?).
>
> thanks for any help!
>

Japhy,

Are you calling session_start() at the *beginning of every page* which
uses sessions?

This *must* be done before *any* output is sent to the browser if you're
using cookie based sessions.

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