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Re: A project involing sessions

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On 9/11/2015 4:44 PM, The Doctor wrote:
> 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.
> 

You don't have your own development machine?  That's something every
developer needs.  Even if you don't need it in class, you will need it
when you start using PHP.

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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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