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Re: A project involing sessions

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In article <msut27$211$2@dont-email.me>,
Jerry Stuckle  <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>On 9/11/2015 11:22 AM, The Doctor wrote:
>> In article <5QzIx.30597$Jh2.30280@fx31.iad>,
>> Richard Damon  <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote:
>>> On 9/10/15 10:24 PM, The Doctor wrote:
>>>>   For about 6 months this has been stomping me.
>>>>
>>>> Now repeat the assignment from the previous project, only this time,
>>>> instead of cookies use sessions. Since sessions are being used, it is
>>>> unnecessary to have the seven day limit from the previous assignment.
>>>> However users should only be able to download the file once per session.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> First question, What doesn't work? Just saying "this has been stomping 
>>> me" doesn't help us.
>>>
>>> Second, you do know that sessions tend to use a cookie anyway to keep 
>>> track of the session (the difference is that with sessions, the cookie 
>>> just stores a session ID, and the rest of the data is stored on the 
>>> server, with some automatic expiry procedure).
>> 
>> So I have been reading.
>> 
>>>
>>>> And the download.php is
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <?php
>>>>
>>>> #start the session
>>>> session_start();
>>>>
>>>> if
>>>> (isset
>>>> ($_POST['check'])
>>>> AND
>>>> (isset($_POST['email']))
>>>> AND
>>>> (empty($_SESSION['email']))
>>>> )
>>>>   {//user clicked form download button
>>>> $customer_email = $_SESSION['email'];
>>> because of the if, we know $_SESSION['email'] is empty, why are you 
>>> trying to use it?
>>>> if (!($customer_email)) {
>>>>     $customer_email = $_GET['email'];
>>>>     //$customer_email = $_SESSION['email'];
>>>> }
>>>>    //setcookie("sevendays", "email", time()+60*60*24*7);
>>>>    $filepath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/.php_files/acme_brochure.pdf";
>>>>    if (file_exists($filepath)) {
>>>>      header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
>>>>      header("Content-Disposition:filename=\"brochure.pdf\"");
>>>>      $fd = fopen($filepath,'rb');
>>>>      fpassthru($fd);
>>>>      fclose($fd);
>>>> if (!($_GET['email'])) {
>>>>     #the customer wants us to remember him/her for next time
>>>>
>>>>    $_SESSION['email'] = $customer_email;
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>   }
>>>>
>>>> }//end isset(check)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ?>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What is not happening given these 2 files?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If download.php isn't doing what you want, perhaps having it display a 
>>> page with what it sees would be helpful to debug.
>>>
>>> When you are detecting the right conditions, then you can change the 
>>> page to do the download, but still could show what the conditions were 
>>> if you detect you shouldn't download. To go to 'production' you would 
>>> then remove the debug output and display a nice error message on failure 
>>> (right now you just give the user a white screen if they try a second 
>>> download).
>>>
>> 
>> All right.  On my test, I just simply do not see the session ID.
>> 
>
>What have you done to debug the problem?  Do you have any error
>messages?  Are you displaying error messages?
>
>On your development machine your php.ini file should have:
>
>error_reporting = E_ALL
>display_errors = on
>

I will ask the instructor.

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A project involing sessions doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2015-09-11 02:24 +0000
  Re: A project involing sessions Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-09-11 08:30 -0400
    Re: A project involing sessions doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2015-09-11 15:22 +0000
      Re: A project involing sessions Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-09-11 11:49 -0400
        Re: A project involing sessions doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2015-09-11 20:44 +0000
          Re: A project involing sessions Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-09-11 16:53 -0400
            Re: A project involing sessions doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2015-09-11 22:18 +0000
              Re: A project involing sessions Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-09-11 19:42 -0400
    Re: A project involing sessions Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-09-11 11:46 -0400
      Re: A project involing sessions doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2015-09-11 20:44 +0000
        Re: A project involing sessions Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-09-11 16:52 -0400

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