[Beta 1.4.0 and 1.4.1] Sessions mod 1.2

[Hagar]

I Think I found the problem

--enable-trans-sid

Without this complile flag the SID is not added to the url.
This means you'll have to construct all urls (links) to contain this SID or you'll have to recompile php with this flag.
_{For a all containing php compile look @ my phpinfo
Chris found it so you should too (off course adjust to your needs)}

Perhaps this info is usefull.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

It says you can add sids to urls like this:
<A HREF="nextpage.php?<?php echo SID?>">click here</A>

Try to construct a link on your forum containing <?php echo SID?> link the example.
If it works you can solve the problem (recompile or add SIDs )

[jthorpe]

I just re-compiled it.  We'll see what happens.  I hope it works.  I would love to get all of my ns 4.78 users back online.  Geez, why can't they just upgrade?!

[Hagar]

Have been busy trying to get it to work on my server all night but the forum is to buggy.
So I know how you feel

Frankly I can't understand why they have the current 1.4 released cause it really is full of typing bugs etc.
This is what a standard out of the box install does.
http://hagar.homeip.net/test/index.php
Nothing, unless you like the header of a gzip file

[phark]

One thing that I would like to know is:  How did a bug this big get past beta testing?

I remember back in the day when we were putting together the old Telegard/Renegad BBS... Us Beta testers dove right in with fully loaded boards to test things.  If there was a major bug, we all worked our asses off to correct it ASAP.  Granted, that was not the day of constant internet connections, so its a little different.  We had to fight just to get online back in those 2400 baud days.  

Maybe the developers need too add some more Beta sites... some with ID10T users that use AOL and other such rubish.  We all have those users, and tapping into a source like that would be the best way to find all the bugs right away.

Just me spouting off again...  

[groundup]

One thing that I would like to know is:  How did a bug this big get past beta testing?

The cookies problems?  They didn't get 'past' beta testing.  Just couldn't solve it.  Sessions were planned a while back for upcoming versions.

I don't know why you are complaining about something free

[goosemoose]

I don't think he is really complaining. I understand the frustration. I have about 100 users right now that can't log in, or constantly get logged out. All the emails get tiring. I wish I could go back to 1.3 but I made so many changes and I just don't have the time right now (working 15 hr days!).

[MedMan]

Chris, already working on the version that enables users to choose from cookies or sessions ?

So far I think your mod is really elegant but I'd rather wait before implementing it on my board untill there's that "dual-login" option, because in the end, if cookies ARE working fine for you (a lot of members do not encounter any problems, but a substantial minority does), the re-login session login might annoy you because you were used as a cookie-login user, to automatically be logged-in upon vsiting the board.

Mmm somewhat cryptic, but you'll get the idea, I hope  

Keep up the good work.

PS: Something else, perhaps I overread: has anyone of the YaBB developers already worked as a spy and searched the sources of alternative PHP bulletin boards, how they do the cookie-stuff ?

[phark]

One thing that I would like to know is:  How did a bug this big get past beta testing?

The cookies problems?  They didn't get 'past' beta testing.  Just couldn't solve it.  Sessions were planned a while back for upcoming versions.

I don't know why you are complaining about something free

I am not complaining... I am discussing a bug.  

[Lapino]

My phpinfo is at http://www.nelie.org/robbyjb/phpinfo.php

[sylvester]

My phpinfo is at http://www.nelie.org/robbyjb/phpinfo.php

your host supports sessions

[Lapino]

I knew that allready, but I don't know why the mod doesn't work at all. Does it have anything to do with the SID?

[Hagar]

SID should be allright with those settings.
Could you take a look in the dir /tmp
php should use that dir to save the session info.
Access the forum and look if any data is being written into that directory.

If it's not the session is not started correctly.

[jthorpe]

I don't know why you are complaining about something free

This is the kind of thing that really pisses me off.  Just because it's free doesn't mean it has to be a piece of crap, right?  These guys give feedback and people like you flame them for it, yet without feedback, the dev team wouldn't have a decent product, free or not.  

I think we all can appreciate how much time these guys volunteer to this project.  They do a great job and YaBB is a GREAT piece of work, but that doesn't mean it's flawless.  When it has problems, I WILL point them out because we ALL want something good.  We want it to improve.  Without feedback, you just cannot improve on something, so get over this "free" crap and move on.  

[severina]

did this die? .. i'm not gonna install it until i have someone say that it works fine on their board and they have over 1000 users... i have over 1000 users but I know that about 3/4 of them can't login because they don't know how to fix their cookies. Better 1/4 of them logging in than none.

Michelle

[Chris Cromer]

Well you can always unintall it if it doesn't work. There is no need to be paranoid about it messing something up. Just uninstall if it don't work for you.

As long as you have the correct sessions set in your php.ini file it should work.