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[nycphp-talk] $_SESSION, Logout, and Shared Host

Ron Guerin ron at vnetworx.net
Wed Nov 4 21:51:54 EST 2009


Christopher R. Merlo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Tim Lieberman <tim_lists at o2group.com
> <mailto:tim_lists at o2group.com>> wrote:
>
>     It sounds like both applications are running on the same domain.
>      If that's not the case, something else is going on.
>
>
> They are running on the same domain.
>  
>
>     You have a couple of options, none of which might make you happy.
>
>     1) In your app, use a custom session name
>     (session_name('MYSESSID') before you call session_start()).
>
>
> Judging from the errors I got, it seems like I may have to do that
> before *every* call to session_start(), which is Big Oh of the amount
> of work in adding a layer to $_SESSION.
>  

>
>  
>
>     However, a global find/replace to replace $_SESSION with
>     $_SESSION['someKey'] will probably do the trick, and not be too
>     painful.
>
>
> Yeah, I can do that with find, xargs, and sed.  Thanks for the advice.

You could also use those tools to replace "session_start();" with
"session_name('whatever'); session_start();"

- Ron



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