Register_globals and Session problem

Hi

I've got a site running PHPv4.3.11 and the host has register_globals turned on but the webhost desperately wants it turned off.

They've got a really ancient shopping cart in there which stores the cart in sessions but not in a database etc. The shopping cart is due to be replaced so I need a quick fix if possible.

So the problem...

User clicks to add an item to the cart

• script registers the session
• scripts adds the cart to the session
• script adds item to the cart
• script redirects to a new page
• new page reads the session and recreates the cart

If I get a dump of the cart just before the redirect I can see the contents but just after it's empty again.

I tried setting session_write_close but in firefox it made no difference, in IE I got huge error messages about using obsolete functions.

So, I'm guessing that there's something that needs to be set but I can't see it. Any ideas?

 

Thanks Willy

You wouldn't happen to have the table structure for those tables would you?

Sarah