[Discuss] PHP Session solved -- sort of

Deryk Barker dbarker at camosun.bc.ca
Fri Jun 23 11:43:26 PDT 2006


Thus spake Carl B. Constantine (duckwing at duckwing.ca):

> Isn't it always the case, you ask a question and then a few minutes
> later, you find the answer yourself. This is what happens when you work
> on other people's code ;-)
> 
> At any rate, I got the session to work correctly on my local system.
> Some of the code written by the previous programmer did some
> optimization that just didn't work in my environment. So I'm using the
> standard session_start() instead of his custom one while developing,
> then will go back for final.

Be warned: browsers treat session variables differently.

Especially - you guessed - IE. Some of my students had a nasty
(non-)portability surprise this term vecause of IE and session
variables.

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