sessions in FF and IE

Hello all,

I use sessions to store some information which I can use in all the pages of
my website. This works fine in FF(1.5) but in IE (7) I have a new session in
every page? I checked my code I do a session_start() once at the top of the
pages.
Is there a setting in IE which forces to start a new session?

in IE I have enabled cookies for all sites, I disabled all browser addons.
What am I missing. Is there anybody out there who knows how to solve this?

I looks like this is not a PHP problem but maybe sombody has encountered the
same problem and has an answer for me.

thanks in advance

You should use

if (! session_id ()) session_start ();

instead of just session_start().

Regards, Hans

"Chello" <...> wrote in message
news:d27f2$46028f2b$3ea34df4$7452@news.chello.nl.. .
> Hello all,
>
> I use sessions to store some information which I can use in all the pages
of
> my website. This works fine in FF(1.5) but in IE (7) I have a new session
in
> every page? I checked my code I do a session_start() once at the top of
the
> pages.
> Is there a setting in IE which forces to start a new session?
>
> in IE I have enabled cookies for all sites, I disabled all browser addons.
> What am I missing. Is there anybody out there who knows how to solve this?
>
> I looks like this is not a PHP problem but maybe sombody has encountered
the
> same problem and has an answer for me.
>
> thanks in advance
>
>

"pritaeas" <pritaeas@hotmail.com> writes:

>> I use sessions to store some information which I can use in all the pages
> of
>> my website. This works fine in FF(1.5) but in IE (7) I have a new session
> in
>> every page? I checked my code I do a session_start() once at the top of
> the
>> pages.
>> Is there a setting in IE which forces to start a new session?
>>
>> in IE I have enabled cookies for all sites, I disabled all browser addons.
>> What am I missing. Is there anybody out there who knows how to solve this?
>>
>> I looks like this is not a PHP problem but maybe sombody has encountered
> the
>> same problem and has an answer for me.
>>
>> thanks in advance

> You should use
>
> if (! session_id ()) session_start ();
>
> instead of just session_start().
>

Not sure if you really need to check, the documentation for
session_start says it will resume a session if already present. We do
a lot of session stuff in PHP and just use session_start().

Hope this helps.
--
John
__________________________________________________ _________________
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http://thebook.com/

Chello wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I use sessions to store some information which I can use in all the pages of
> my website. This works fine in FF(1.5) but in IE (7) I have a new session in
> every page? I checked my code I do a session_start() once at the top of the
> pages.
> Is there a setting in IE which forces to start a new session?
>
> in IE I have enabled cookies for all sites, I disabled all browser addons.
> What am I missing. Is there anybody out there who knows how to solve this?
>
> I looks like this is not a PHP problem but maybe sombody has encountered the
> same problem and has an answer for me.

I've heard about more people having this problem with MSIE 7. Haven't
yet heard the solution though. Try to determine wether MSIE accepts the
session. If you're using cookies, check wether it came back or not. If
it didn't, there's a reason MSIE rejected it. Try to play around with
the session constants (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php)
untill it does accept it.

HTH,
--
Rik Wasmus

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