Re: [PHP] Session variable not persisting

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Éric Oliver Paquette
<[email protected]>wrote:

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> Le 2013-03-18 à 15:24, Éric Oliver Paquette a écrit :
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> Le 2013-03-18 à 15:20, Matijn Woudt a écrit :
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> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Éric Oliver Paquette <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Éric Oliver Paquette <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I'll be swift in my explanation as I can't find in any way the source of
>> the problem; it seems to be installation-related.
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>> At execution, sometimes (randomly it seems at first), variable session
>> aren't properly stored.
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>> In fact, when I run this on my server I randomly have empty entries in
>> the $_SESSION array. Any thoughts on this? Is this a known bug (haven't
>> found it…)
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>> Thanks!
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>> What does phpinfo() show about session stuff? Especially things like
>> save_handler and cookie_lifetime settings.
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>> Note that this seems to occur 3 times out of 1000 on average.
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>> Now, about your request :
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>> session
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>> Session Support enabled
>> Registered save handlers files user
>> Registered serializer handlers php php_binary wddx
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>> Directive Local Value Master Value
>> session.auto_start Off Off
>> session.bug_compat_42 Off Off
>> session.bug_compat_warn Off Off
>> session.cache_expire 180 180
>> session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
>> session.cookie_domain no value no value
>> session.cookie_httponly Off Off
>> session.cookie_lifetime 0 0
>> session.cookie_path / /
>> session.cookie_secure Off Off
>> session.entropy_file no value no value
>> session.entropy_length 0 0
>> session.gc_divisor 1000 1000
>> session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440
>> session.gc_probability 1 1
>> session.hash_bits_per_character 5 5
>> session.hash_function 0 0
>> session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
>> session.referer_check no value no value
>> session.save_handler files files
>> session.save_path /var/lib/php/session /var/lib/php/session
>> session.serialize_handler php php
>> session.use_cookies On On
>> session.use_only_cookies On On
>> session.use_trans_sid 0 0
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> Your settings seem to be fine. My best guess would be hardware failure,
> though it seems unlikely. Did you check apache (or whatever webserver
> you're using) logs for any errors or warnings?
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> Yes I did. Everyhting seems normal there too.
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> Hm… Just noticed something new in fact; was looking a last time before
> considering reinstallation on a new server: it seems that the $_GET['push']
> is undefined. In the other scripts I use where I have this problem, I'm
> using $_POST variables though but still don't get stored in $_SESSION. If
> I'm correct, this may implies that it is apache that is faulty right?
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$_GET['push'] will be undefined if you still have your session stored, but
accessing the script directly. It should have nothing to do with faulty
Apache.