unknown problem - probably $session issue

clantron · #1 (**permalink**) 03-18-06, 11:45 PM

I have 2 websites running with $session...
one of them is a game the other a community site.
one runs in dir domain.com/a
other runs in dir domain.com/b

I have a link from community to game which goes like following:
<code>
<A href="link.domain.com/B" target="_blank">link</a>
</code>

Now following happens.
After visiting community site page A then clicking on link gives no problem.
After visiting com site page A then page B then clicking on link seems to give a lot of errors to the game site. All are on lines that have $session in it.

Now I'm wondering what this could be.
I am asuming it's $sessions that are mixing up.
And if it is that then how could I solve this?

Also the problem seems to persist once it started. Untill the broswer (IE) is closed. Then when trying again it's ok for the first link.
I hope I'm making any sense...

What I think happens is that the link is somehow forwarding the $session info to the other. I'm not sure.
If it could be anything else please let me know.

I can't really give any code because there's quite a bit of code involved here and I've no idea where the problem lies except for the $session part.

Thanks in advance.

mab · #2 (**permalink**) 03-19-06, 12:20 AM

How about giving some of the errors?

A session for a user should be accessible for any page within a single domain. I don't know if this applies to sub-domains. Do sessions work in general, except for this case?

mab · #3 (**permalink**) 03-19-06, 12:41 AM

The default for the session.cookie_domain is nothing "". It is possible that the session cookie was created using the full domain of the starting page. If so, this could lockout access from a subdomain. The PHP manual for cookies recommends -

Quote:

To make the cookie available on all subdomains of example.com then you'd set it to '.example.com'. The . is not required but makes it compatible with more browsers. Setting it to www.example.com will make the cookie only available in the www subdomain.

Perhaps set session.cookie_domain to '.yourdomain.com'

clantron · #4 (**permalink**) 03-19-06, 08:48 AM

sorry got so tired after 5 hrs of looking at it I went soon to bed...
Here are the errors... after posting those I'll go look at the cookies see if anything is there.

Code:

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 677

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 752

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 764

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 771

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 774

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 775

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 776

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 787

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/lib/common_includes.php on line 11

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 319

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 320

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 321

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/lib/funct_page.php on line 25

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 319

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 320

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 321

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/index.php on line 38

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 201

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/common.php on line 201

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/lib/funct_page.php on line 110

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/lib/funct_page.php on line 111

Warning: Division by zero in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/lib/funct_page.php on line 112

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/lib/funct_page.php on line 114

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /home/drakestone/www/rpg/lib/funct_page.php on line 115

clantron · #5 (**permalink**) 03-19-06, 09:28 AM

made the cookies completely seperate now.
didn't fix the problem tho.

clantron · #6 (**permalink**) 03-19-06, 09:45 AM

ok I made a work around just now ...

What I did is following:

I created a redirect.php
inside that I have a 1 sec redirect
and a

PHP Code:


			
session_destroy();

This seems to stop the errors from coming, which proves it's a session issue that's being carried over...
If you've any other ideas besides this redirect lemme know

For now however, thanks for your time and help.

clantron · #7 (**permalink**) 03-19-06, 02:36 PM

*sigh*
cheered too soon.
it seems that if both sites are active at the same time the errors come back

I've no clue why the sessions are being brought over between 2 opened websites in 2 browser screens.

They dont even have the same login system

Any ideas would be appreciated....

UPDATE:
ok several hours ago I set up a new subdomain for the game part...
that's active now ..
for some reason the sessions do not seem to conflict as long as the link is game.website.com when I use www.website.com/game that it goes wrong. It doesn't make sense to me but it seems to work that way...