[phpBT-dev] Bug 542974 / Session handling

[John W. <jp...@us...>]

This one seems to be causing a lot of problems with people!

The problem (on my server anyway) really seems to be that
assignments to $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['name'] dont work with
regiter_globals 'on', but do with it 'off'.

ie $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['one'] = "test";

For information, this is on php 4.0.6 which is the default
with redhat 7.2.

On more recent versions of php, the $_SESSION looks to be
the way to go.  On older versions such as 4.0.6, the old
session_register method works....  The problem seems to
be in trying to find a method that works on both 'old'
and 'new' releases.

Could a solution - or at least a long-term fix - be to
abstract the session variable assignment into a function
and to code the function to detect the version of php and
use the appropriate method for writing data?? This could
be done in such a way that ONLY the session writing code
is affected - session variable reading seems to work fine
in all cases.

john