Rude awakening; PHP 4.2.3 and Sessions

[omars]

I woke up this morning to find that my web hosting company had

upgraded from PHP 4.2.1 to PHP 4.2.3, and that as a result, my web site

didn't work any longer

 

The problem was related to the way sessions were handled. I set STORE_SESSIONS to "mysql" and that solved the problem; however, what are the consequences of such change, is that really the way to solve this problem?

 

On a different subject, I am running on a snapshot taken sometime in May or June 2002. I want to upgrade to the latest and greatest snapshot, however, I have tried several times, but for some estrange reason, the latest snapshots don't allow me to create an account. The state drop down menu doesn't show up, and consequently I can't create an account, check out, etc. Am I doing something wrong?

 

I have tried Netscape 6.0 and IE 6.028. My web hosting Co is using:

Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.2.3

 

In my PC I am using:

Windows XP, Apache/1.3.26, PHP Version: 4.2.1 (Zend: 1.2.0)

 

Thanks a bunch in advance for shedding some light on this subject.

 

Omar

[seCret steVe]

Best to talk to whom ever owns the servers. They might need to change some of the configes to make it work

 

Steve

[omars]

I guess it is good when I can answer my own questions.

 

I woke up this morning to find that my web hosting company had

upgraded from PHP 4.2.1 to PHP 4.2.3, and that as a result, my web site

didn't work any longer

 

The problem was related to the way sessions were handled. I set STORE_SESSIONS to "mysql" and that solved the problem; however, what are the consequences of such change, is that really the way to solve this problem?

 

This morning I went and reset STORE_SESSIONS to '', instead of 'mysql',

and it worked this time. I guess there was something incorrectly set,

or something they missed, and now they fixed it. Clearly I wasn't the

only one affected. :D

 

On a different subject, I am running on a snapshot taken sometime in May or June 2002. I want to upgrade to the latest and greatest snapshot, however, I have tried several times, but for some estrange reason, the latest snapshots don't allow me to create an account. The state drop down menu doesn't show up, and consequently I can't create an account, check out, etc. Am I doing something wrong?

 

I have tried Netscape 6.0 and IE 6.028. My web hosting Co is using:

Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.2.3

 

In my PC I am using:

Windows XP, Apache/1.3.26, PHP Version: 4.2.1 (Zend: 1.2.0)

 

Over the weekend I downloaded, and tested, the latest snapshot, and

it now works as expected, the drop down menu is till not there, but

when I type the name of a valid state, it accepts it. If I type an invalid

name, then it prompts me with a drop down list of valid states. :oops: I guess

I wasn't doing anything wrong. :wink:

 

Thanks a bunch in advance for shedding some light on this subject.

 

Omar

 

Omar