Re: [phpBT-dev] Bug 542974 / Session handling

[Ben C. <php...@be...>]

This is probably the best long term solution.  Now if I had more than
five minutes in a week to work on it. :)

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:13:15AM +0100, John Wilkins wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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