php sessions

[a_o]

i seem to be having some trouble getting php sessions to work with my new slackware 9.1 install. basically php and everything is working fine and i set session.auto_start to 1 in php.ini......is there anything that i am forgetting?
thanks,

[sde]

i've never tried the auto_start feature, but can you get sessions to start with the normal call in the code?

[a_o]

i know the code works i just carried it over from my old slackware 8.1 box to slackware 9.1. im using session_start(); and session_destroy(); but the problem is that the sessions arent registering. i think its a problem with the php.ini config file, but i looked over it and cant seem to find anything wrong with it. thanks

[a_o]

i think the problem is when i run the script in console, ie #php auth.php it says the cookie expires thu, 19 nov 1981......any idea where this date comes from or how to change it? my system time is fine and everytihing,, it doesnt make sense.
thanks

[a_o]

ok after messing around with it all for a while i got an error:


Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/connect.php:18) in /var/www/login.php on line 37

Warning: Unknown(): Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can disable this functionality and this warning by setting session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively. in Unknown on line 0

so i guess when i went from PHP 4.2.0 to 4.3.3 there were some compatibility issues with my code.

[sde]

make sure you have NO whitespace before you start your session. session functions need to happen in the header BEFORE anything is printed to the browser.

that is what is causing that error:

for example.. this is wrong

PHP Code:


<?
session_start();

// notice the white space above the <? tag
// this is bad mmkay?
?>

this is right

PHP Code:

<?
session_start();
// no white space or echo'ing to the browser before session is called
?>

[a_o]

well i figured it out,....fyi since 4.2.3 php turned off register_globals by default....now that i am using php4.3.3 there is a compatibility issue. so i just turned it back on, even though it is insecure

thanks sde