I have been developing a site which stores an image files binary data
inside a session variable. Initially, I was developing this site on the
following environment:
Apache-2.0.52/PHP5.0.3/Windows XP
Things worked very well, as I expected them to anyway. I would upload
images and they would be manipulated and stored back into the session.
I then moved over to my production box:
Apache-2.0.54/PHP5.0.4/FreeBSD
And everything literally stopped dead in it's track with regards to the
session variables and the binary data. Whenever I now upload an image,
it is properly stored in session. However, whenever I do
session_start(); on any page, it just hangs.
In fact, here is the test.php file on which it hung:
<?PHP
session_start();
?>
Hi // Never gets outputted to browser
I've yet to come across other users with this same problem. Furthermore,
upon suggestions of co-workers, I have tried to base64 encode before it
is serialized by PHP and base64 decode this data when I need to use it.
Looking through my /var/tmp directory, I see that in fact the session
file is 300KB, which makes sense, since the image I was trying to upload
was indeed roughly 300KB.
Regards
PS, also check out my MySQLi group @
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/MySQLi if ever in need of help with
that part of the PHP world :-)
I have been developing a site which stores an image files binary data
inside a session variable. Initially, I was developing this site on the
following environment:Apache-2.0.52/PHP5.0.3/Windows XP
Things worked very well, as I expected them to anyway. I would upload
images and they would be manipulated and stored back into the session.I then moved over to my production box:
Apache-2.0.54/PHP5.0.4/FreeBSD
And everything literally stopped dead in it's track with regards to the
session variables and the binary data. Whenever I now upload an image,
it is properly stored in session. However, whenever I do
session_start(); on any page, it just hangs.In fact, here is the test.php file on which it hung:
<?PHP
session_start();
?>
Hi // Never gets outputted to browser
What does print_r($_SESSION); say.
Also, use a debug LogLevel in Apache and check the output in the error_log
file.
I've yet to come across other users with this same problem. Furthermore,
upon suggestions of co-workers, I have tried to base64 encode before it
is serialized by PHP and base64 decode this data when I need to use it.Looking through my /var/tmp directory, I see that in fact the session
file is 300KB, which makes sense, since the image I was trying to upload
was indeed roughly 300KB.Regards
PS, also check out my MySQLi group @
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/MySQLi if ever in need of help with
that part of the PHP world :-)
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