PHP SESSION data lost between page loads with WAMPserver 2.0 on localhost

Question

I have a PHP authentication system on my website using the $_SESSION variable.

A form submits a username and password to the file \"login.php\". It is handled like t

Answer 1

WAMP server 2 - settings are not set by default for $_SESSION var.

PHP.ini requires the following settings

C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.2\bin\php.ini
session.cookie_domain =
session.use_cookies = 1
session.save_path = "c:\wamp\tmp"   ;ensure the \ is used not /

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Session testing - load.php -- load $_SESSION var.

<?PHP
session_start();
$_SESSION['SESS_MEMBER_ID'] = 'stored variable';
session_write_close();
header("location:print.php");
?>

print.php -- print $_SESSION var.

<?PHP
session_start();
var_dump($_SESSION);
?>

run the script in your browser var_dump() should produce results

go to c:\wamp\tmp Files containing the session data will appear here.