php 5.2.0 update problem

[ca18]

php.net have marked their bug or better fcukup as bogus now so they won't fix it

[bugfreek1]

All--

Running into an interesting challenge with our store. We did an upgrade to our server for XML purposes, ran into the session challenge described in this thread. Using Dr. Byte's fix seemed to work...for a few days. Then one of our admin users (there are 5, using the main admin password) described getting kicked out of the Admin area....but only on some computers. We performed the usual cache and session clearing on her computer, plus installed Firefox since we're convinced that IE is the root of all internet evil. The problem seemed to right itself...at least for a few days.

We've gotten word that another user is having this problem, only clearing cache and switching to Firefox seems to do nothing. We've logged into her computer using a different user profile (running win xp) and the admin area works fine. However, no matter what we do, we can't get reports to work for her. The usual answer would be to fix the roaming profile she uses on the Win2k3 server, but roaming profiles are off....and the problem persists across any computer she jumps on in the office.

Anybody have any ideas at all? I'm convinced this is a profile issue, but we can't prove it.

Thanks,
Ben Peterson
Interactive Media Developer
Space Foundation

[rhys100]

i tired this fix but got this error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _sess_write() (previously declared in /home/bdmaxcl/public_html/store/includes/functions/sessions.php:34) in /home/bdmaxcl/public_html/store/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 53

please post fix asap.

[Ajeh]

Both of the sessions.php function files need to be updated ...

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...7&postcount=26



/includes/functions/sessions.php

/admin/includes/functions/sessions.php

The files are pretty similar ... and the fix is more or less the same ...



NOTE: If this fix "works" for you, then you need to upgrade your version of Zen Cart ... sooner than later. The latest version of Zen Cart contains a number of fixes related to PHP5 and MySQL5. You should plan your upgrade ... soon.

[freya]

Okay. I have done the session fix. While the error message is gone, when I "sign in", I don't get any further than the sign in page. That's right. It's like the sign in page is refreshing.

Marci

[muntada]

Make sure both look EXACTLY like this:

    function _sess_write($key, $val) {
      // The following is only to work around a PHP 5.2.0 bug:
      global $db;
      if (!is_object($db)) {
        //PHP 5.2.0 bug workaround ...
        $db = new queryFactory();
        $db->connect(DB_SERVER, DB_SERVER_USERNAME, DB_SERVER_PASSWORD, DB_DATABASE, USE_PCONNECT, false);
      }
      global $SESS_LIFE;

NOTE: If this fix "works" for you, then you need to upgrade your version of Zen Cart ... sooner than later. The latest version of Zen Cart contains a number of fixes related to PHP5 and MySQL5. You should plan your upgrade ... soon.

[Ajeh]

NOTE: this php 5.2.0 bug does have a temporary fix built into Zen Cart v1.3.7 ...

For this and other issues for security, bugfixes and additional features it is strongly recommended that you upgrade to Zen Cart v1.3.7 ...

[jenna]

Thanks for the workaround DrByte! Works like a charm!

[Ajeh]

NOTE: this is built into the current version of Zen Cart ... v1.3.7 ... might want to upgrade for this and many other bugfixes, security issues and features ...

Plus, if using PayPal ... keep an eye on the PayPal Patch thread:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56216

[lemuria]

On this and other threads, I'm seeing some people recommend this:
define('STORE_SESSIONS', '');

and some this:
define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'file');

Is there a difference between these two options? Is one of them better? They both seem to work.