Posted by joeblow on 11/23/05 08:59

It seems that everyone avoids these $_SESSION questions like the plague. Is
it because there is too much involved to diagnose from a distance?

Because I swear, if I don't find this problem I think I'm gonna slit my
wrists. I've been trying to get sessions to work for months and it just
doesn't happen. I've read article after article, the manual, tutorials, etc.
and can't find a description of the mechanism that causes sessions and
cookies to work together. The manual describes using the URL to propagate
the id, but not the mechanism behind cookies.

With WinXP, IE6, PHP5, are there any undocumented issues anyone has learned?

The session writes files and stores relevant data, but $_SESSION is unable
to access the values after navigating to another page.

How do sessions work with cookies?

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