Question

I’m running PHP on Windows/IIS.

My session variables don’t seem to be preserved from page-to-page.

This code…

//echos out the session variables in a nice format for inspection echo '<p><pre>'; print_r($_SESSION); echo '</pre></p>'; 

…outputs blank values, like this…

     Array       (           [s_firstvar] =>           [s_var2] =>           [s_third] =>           [s_numberfour] =>           [s_youget] =>           [s_thepoint] =>           [] =>       ) 

I found suggestions on a forum…

I had a similar problem recently (Win2000, IIS), and it turned out that PHP did not have write-access to whatever directory that the session data was stored in. You may want to look into this.

and

have you set session.save_path?

What’s the proper use of php.ini’s session.save_path? And, is that my problem?

Answer 1

Oops. I found that I was not using the correct syntax when assigning values:

Does not work:

$_SESSION['$s_firstvar'] = 3; 

Does work:

$_SESSION['s_firstvar'] = 3;