osCommerce SESSION var problem...

[Elliott3]

I have been trying to figure out this problem with sessioin variables all day... this is really the firt time ive looked at oscommerce but I am snapping it in among sections of a website..

What I need to be able to do is to simply create a session variable in a page within the 'store' driectory and and access that session variable outside of the 'store' directory... it doesn't seem to be straight forward??? If anyone can shed any light I would really appreciate it.

CES

 

[sleipnir214]

How are you setting the session variable?

How are you checking for its presence?


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[Elliott3]

I set the variable under the store directory in the normal way... $_SESSION['my_sess'] = "this"; I have checked the variable after it is set by outputting it to the screen and it is ok...I then check the variable on the next page and i find that it is no longer set.. i test with th isset() method...

oscommerce seems to have their own session management but there should be a way araound this.. Its seems as though the session gets dumped at the end of each page but the variables that I create can be used throughout the store directory.. just not when I go outside of that directory..

could 'HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN' or something like that have any affect on the problem.. open to anything...

CES

 

[sleipnir214]

Check your php.ini setting of session.cookie_path?


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[Elliott3]

I checked and it just shows a forward slash '/'.. what does this mean?

In the oscommerce source code they have this:

define('PHP_SESSION_NAME', 'osCsid');
define('PHP_SESSION_PATH', $cookie_path);
define('PHP_SESSION_DOMAIN', $cookie_domain);
define('PHP_SESSION_SAVE_PATH', SESSION_WRITE_DIRECTORY);


Is this what i should be looking into?

CES

 

[sleipnir214]

The "/" means "for the entire directory structure of the site".

Examine:

define('PHP_SESSION_PATH', $cookie_path);

Look in the OSCommerce config files and see what "PHP_SESSION_PATH" is set to.


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[Elliott3]

Does this make any senseto you?

$cookie_path = (($request_type == 'NONSSL') ? HTTP_COOKIE_PATH : HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH);

 

[sleipnir214]

Yes. This is an example of PHP's trinary operator. It is logically equivalent to:

if ($request_type == 'NONSSL')
{
$cookie_path = HTTP_COOKIE_PATH
}
else
{
$cookie_path = HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH;
}

Now look to see what HTTP_COOKIE_PATH and HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH are set to.


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[Elliott3]

It is set to '/store' ... should i change that to '/' to include the root dir?

CES

 

[sleipnir214]

If that's what you need....

The only problem I can see is when you go to the admin section, there might be spurious data there.


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[Elliott3]

Thanks..

Are you familiar with the osCommerce software?

CES

 

[Elliott3]

Is it possible to create a session within another session?

CES

 

[sleipnir214]

What does that mean?


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[Elliott3]

osCommerce software is shopping cart stuff. if that is what you were asking...

the session thing i was thinking that maybe i could create a new set of session variables under a new name or something to maintain these extra variables... I'm kinda runnin outta ideas..

CES

 

[sleipnir214]

Did you check and/or change the definitions of HTTP_COOKIE_PATH and HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH? Did it not make a difference?


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[Elliott3]

I changed them to '/' and it made no difference... the osCommerce software does some session managment of its own... i figure thats whats causeing the problem?

CES

 

[sleipnir214]

Do you see code where OSCommerce is actually using the session-configuration values set in the define() statements you posted?


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[Elliott3]

Yes and No... the code seems pretty complicated and there is little documentation. I really appreciate you taking the time to help out. I don;'t really know what else I can post for a question.

 

[Elliott3]

Is there a way that you know to create a second set of session variables within a current session?

So I could set / request specific session variables?

any thoughts about that?

 

[sleipnir214]

Somewhere in the configuration scripts there will likely be an invocation of session_set_cookie_params().

Generally, when I was modifying OSCommerce to suit my purposes, I used a text editor that could search multiple files on a filesystem.


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