Posted by Oli Filth on 10/12/05 02:14

Japhy said the following on 11/10/2005 19:42:
> 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.

You shouldn't be using $x to access $_SESSION['x']. See
http://www.php.net/manual/security.globals.php#AEN6744



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Oli

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