session_start() problem

[Slait]

Hi All,
Could anybody give me a hint? I'm running PHP4.3.4 and trying
to use sessions. But the following starting point
<?php
session_start();
?>
brings such a message:

The following error was encountered:
* Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.

[jatar_k]

squid never likes zero sized pages, this doesn't mean anything is wrong it is just telling you the page had nothing in it

try adding a little content

<?php
session_start();
$SESSION['mytestvar'] = 'php rocks';
echo 'did you know that: ', $SESSION['mytestvar'];
?>

should be a fine test

[Slait]

No that doens't help much :(
I also tried to use other session fuctions as session_id or
session_unset(); and no errors observed, but with session_start() I got this error and it looks very strange for me. By the way setcookie() also works. So as it seems for me I can get the same functionality of the script using cookies without session functions? Or there is real difference in using session and cookies without session?
Thank you

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Slait.

That all depends on how your server is configured for PHP sessions [php.net]. You may also want to consider upgrading that server if you can. You are a few (security) releases behind.

[FiRe]

try jatar's test again with the correct code...

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['mytestvar'] = 'php rocks';
echo 'did you know that: ' . $_SESSION['mytestvar'];
?>

;-)

[coopster]

If you were referring to the syntax of the echo [php.net] language construct, FiRe, you better read again. There is nothing wrong with that statement ;)

// Some people prefer passing multiple parameters to echo over concatenation. 
echo 'This ', 'string ', 'was ', 'made ', 'with multiple parameters.', chr(10); 
echo 'This ' . 'string ' . 'was ' . 'made ' . 'with concatenation.' . "\n";

[FiRe]

i was talking about the missing _ in SESSION!

[jatar_k]

hehe, underscores help ;)

but to be honest it shouldn't have changed anything there should have been output as I made the mistake in both vars

[coopster]

i was talking about the missing _ in SESSION!

Ah yes, you should have been more specific ;)