I am having problems with sessions.

Hi


When using Internet Explorer I can pass sessions to other pages.
I cannot pass sessions when I use Mozilla Firefox.

//at the top of the page
session_start();

//value passed
$last_login = $_SESSION['s_last_login'];//last user login history

PHP:

//This is my PHP.ini file session configuration below.

[Session]
; Handler used to store/retrieve data.
session.save_handler = files
;session.save_path = "N;/path"
;session.save_path = "N;MODE;/path"
;session.save_path = "/tmp"
session.use_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
;Initialize session on request startup.
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = /
session.cookie_domain =
session.serialize_handler = php
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor     = 100
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.bug_compat_42 = 1
session.bug_compat_warn = 1
session.referer_check =
session.entropy_length = 0
session.entropy_file =
;session.entropy_length = 16
;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.cache_expire = 180
session.use_trans_sid = 0
session.hash_function = 0
session.hash_bits_per_character = 4

PHP:

 

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Does that Firefox accept cookies?

 

When it's working on one browser and not working with the other, I would check and see if the other one has cookies enabled...

 

linkexchange1984 will probably shoot this down in flames but,
wouldn't it be preferable to embed the SID in a hidden form field
when constructing any returned HTML, to ensure compatibility
with browsers which either do not recognise cookies, or within
which the user has disabled accepting cookies ?
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This has the advantage that the SID does not flash (however briefly)
in the user's browser address line when responding with a submit.
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$_POST would then include a reference to the SID, which would be
some kind of catch-all, circumventing the cookie issue ?

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Chris

 

Thanks for the solutions\sugestion.

This is a windows 2003 server php installaion using Apache.

Enabling cookie was the temporary solution.
I will store the session info in a database.

How do I accomplish the example below if I disable cookies?

example:
I have a 20 pages I need to pass the same user preferences\permissions\data across. I have been using sessions in IE and it works. I want to move to Firefox.
Note: The total of 15 to 20 preferences\permissions\data are stored in mysql DB and security is important.

I would prefer not to have to select the preferences\permissions\data from the database for each page.

 

if the session is set when using IE and you want to open up FF and expect it to load the IE session, that will not work

well, maybe if you wanted to bring the session ID over to FF with you. you would have to tell the script the session ID, and try to load it. But, I think PHP is designed to not offer that functionality because it is a huge security hole. (if some dummy links to their banks page, and the session id is in the URL, all you have to do is copy/paste to get into their account).