Disappearing sessions/variables

[radicaledward]

I have written a shopping cart application, which is running on a FreeBSD server using PHP 4.2.3 and MySQL 3.23.48 (I think - their support pages aren't up-to-date!). Most of the time it is fine, but customers have reported problems like products disappearing from their shopping cart or not going into the shopping cart in the first place. Although some of it may be bugs in the code, the randomness makes me wonder if the server is dropping sessions. Because of the seeming randomness, I am finding it hard to replicate and therefore to diagnose and fix it

Anyone have any experience with what can be expected of PHP sessions and how I might track down the problem?

 

[sleipnir214]

It could be that your sessions are expiring.

In php.ini, take a look at the PHP runtime configuration directives session.cookie_lifetime, session.gc_maxlifetime, and session.gc_probability. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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