[Discuss] PHP Session solved -- sort of

[Carl B. Constantine]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 14:58 -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
> At 11:43 AM -0700 6/23/06, Deryk Barker wrote:
> >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.
> 
> I don't know if it is relevant, but I read on a website called 
> phpfreaks that there is something you can do which helps workaround a 
> bug in IE related to caching, which may be affecting you.

No, I use Firefox. The issue is with a custom session_start() function
written by the previous programmer. It for some reason, didn't like my
system/domain setup. Changing it to just the regular php function, works
fine for development.

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