after fixing the my original problems with sessions ( setting "session.save_path" from "/tmp" > "c:\php\sessiondata" )
i am no longer reciving any warnings!

But now my the problem is that my sessions wont persist. if i return the following code:

    session_start();

    session_register('counter');

    $counter++;
    echo("You have visited this page $counter times! Don't you have anything
    else to do, you bum?!");

    echo strip_tags(SID);

and i refresh the page. I always get :

    "You have visited this page 1 times! Don't you have anything else to do, you bum?!"

as you can see $counter is not adding to itself each time and the SID isnt doing anything.

the above code works fine when i upload it to my www host its just my local machine i am running w2k - am i missing something?

This is a problem with register_globals, its turned off by default. Don't use session_register, use the $_SESSION superglobal instead. You treat these just like regular variables.

session_start();

if (!isset($_SESSION['counter']))
{
    $_SESSION['counter'] = 0;
}

$_SESSION['foo'] = 'Hello, World!';

$_SESSION['counter']++;

Read this post on why session_register is bad:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2052

Regards,
Rich

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The SID isn't doing anything because you're not actually creating a LINK with it -- you're just echoing it to the user.

That said, when you refresh the page, PHP still doesn't have a session ID, so it creates a new session every time.

If you configure PHP to use cookies to store the session ID, and to enable the transparent session ID feature, then your code will work when you refresh the page. That's because the SID is stored in a cookie on the user's machine, so their browser sends it to PHP via HTTP headers, instead of attaching it to all links and via hidden input fields in all forms...


make sense?



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/