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Sessions cause php to crash!

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 11:55 am
by Data
Whenever I try to use sessions in my scripts php crashes:

php.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

I tried a test script which contains only this:

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<?php
session_start();
?>

<html>
<body>
A test.
</body>
</html>
but it still crashes.

Anybody have any idea why this is?

did u reinstall php

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 12:47 pm
by conthox
Did you try to install the latest version of PHP ?

What webserver are you running ?

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 1:16 pm
by volka
is session.save_path in your php.ini valid an accessable with php's uid?
(only a guess - I don't know if this can cause such an error)

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 1:26 pm
by Data
At the moment it is set to /tmp.

It says that windows users should change this - where should I change it to?

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 1:33 pm
by volka
to any valid directory you want to.
I -for example- have
e:\
..-webserver
....-htdocs
....-upload.tmp
....-session.data
....-ftp
....- and so on

-> session.save_path = E:/webserver/sessions

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 5:16 pm
by Data
Thanks for the help.

I ended up installing the newest version of PHP, and it seems to be working. Now I'll have to start using the $_GET[] etc and changing all my previous code!

Also, why is $PHP_SELF coming up as an undefined variable?

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 7:18 pm
by volka
it also 'went' into an array
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

but you still have the possibility to set register_globals to On.

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:45 am
by Data
Ah, thanks!