Re: [phplib] Re: phplib7.2c session weirdness From: Daniel E. Baumann (baumannd <email protected>)
Date: 09/20/00

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> > Hello all I am working on a project and I am using phplib. I recently upgraded
> > to phplib72.c. I have a logout script which is a link on my Menu derived
> > menu class. The problem that I am encountering is that it doesn't seem to
> > destroy the session or phplib is getting the wrong session from the database
> > at times. If I login as an administartor and then logout login as someone
> > with lesser privileges sometimes it diplays the information for the admin and
> > tells me it is destroying the admin's session, and other quirky things. It
> > just seems that it doesn't always get the right session. Sometimes when I
> > login as someone then logout and login as someone else it displays the
> > old user instead of the person I just logged in as (I have a
> > redirector page that displays their name and redirects them to the
> > appropriate main page based on access rights. I have permissions checking on
> > all pages of course).
> >
> > When I was using phplib-7.3-dev from my Debian box I did not get all this
> > weird behavior. The setup is identical on both boxes (I am using RedHat at
> > the moment). So does anyone know of some weird session behavior with
> > phplib-7.2c? Why can't I get the phplib-7.3-dev tar ball from the web site
> > anymore?
> >
> > I also thought it might be the browser so I upgraded to netscape 4.75, but it
> > didn't help.
> >
> > Here is my logout script:
> >
> > <?php
> > /***************************************************************************
> > logout.php3 - Logs the user out of the system.
> >
> > ------------------------
> > Copyright : (C) 2000 by Daniel Baumann
> > Email : baumannd <email protected>
> > Date : 09/04/2000
> >
> > $Id: logout.php3,v 1.1 2000/09/14 04:32:04 baumannd Exp $
> > ***************************************************************************/
> >
> > /***************************************************************************
> > * *
> > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify *
> > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by *
> > * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or *
> > * (at your option) any later version. *
> > * *
> > * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but *
> > * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of *
> > * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU *
> > * General Public License for more details. *
> > * *
> > * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License *
> > * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software *
> > * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 *
> > * USA. *
> > * *
> > ***************************************************************************/
> >
> > page_open(array("sess" => "TRIOSession", "auth" => "TRIOAuthorization",
> > "perm" => "TRIOPermissions", "user" => "TRIOUser"));
> > ?>
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Draft//EN">
> > <HTML>
> > <HEAD>
> > <TITLE>Logout</TITLE>
> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> > <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="/include/mainStyle.css">
> > <META NAME="author" CONTENT="Daniel E. Baumann">
> > <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright &copy; 2000 Milwaukee School of Engineering">
> > <META NAME="description"" CONTENT="">
> > <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="TRIO Web Management System, SourceForge, free software">
> >
> > </HEAD>
> >
> > <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#993399" ALINK="#FF0000" BACKGROUND="/graphics/stdback_sm.gif">
> >
> >
> > <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="620">
> > <TR>
> > <TD><IMG SRC="/graphics/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD>
> > <TD>
> >
> > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER=0><TR VALIGN="top">
> > <TD><A HREF="/"><IMG SRC="/graphics/nlogo.gif" ALT="[MSOE Homepage]" WIDTH=112 HEIGHT=124 BORDER=0></A></TD>
> > <TD VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans serif" COLOR="#CC0000">
> > <H1>Logout</H1></FONT>
> > </TD>
> > <TD ALIGN="right">
> > <?PHP include("vertTextNavBar.inc") ?>
> > <P>
> > <FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" SIZE="-2" COLOR="#CC0000">
> > <?PHP
> > $menu = new TRIOWebMenu();
> > $menu->show();
> > ?>
> > </FONT>
> > </TD>
> > </TR></TABLE>
> > <!-- End page header -->
> >
> > <FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans serif">
> >
> > <P>
> > <!-- The body of your page goes here -->
> >
> > You have been logged in as <b><?php print $auth->auth["uname"] ?></b> with
> > <b><?php print $auth->auth["perm"] ?></b> permissions.
> > <P>Your authentication
> > was valid until <b><?php print date("d. M. Y, H:i:s", $auth->auth["exp"])
> > ?></b>.
> > <p>
> > You are now logged out. Thank you for using the TRIO Web Management System.
> >
> > <!-- leave everything alone below here -->
> > <P><HR WIDTH="65%"><P>
> >
> > <DIV ALIGN="right"><I><font size="-1" FACE="arial, helvetica, sans serif">
> > Last Update <?PHP include("last_modified.php3") ?>
> > <BR>&copy; 2000 Milwaukee School of Engineering
> > </font></I></DIV>
> >
> > </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
> > </BODY>
> > </HTML>
> > <?PHP
> > $auth->logout();
> > page_close();
> > ?>
> >
> > Dan
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Daniel E. Baumann
> > E-mail: baumannd <email protected> (preferred)
> > baumannd <email protected>
> > baumannd <email protected>
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> >
> > Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd
> > http://www.linuxfreak.com/~baumannd
> >
> > "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code."
> >
> > -- Dave Olson
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Nevermind, I think it is a caching issue beacuse if I hit reload then I see
> the correct messages. Does this behavior have to do with the cache fixes for
> IE (I am not using IE of course beacuse this is a Linux box). How do I turn
> caching off, can I turn it off? I guess I'll give it a look.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Dan
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Daniel E. Baumann
> E-mail: baumannd <email protected> (preferred)
> baumannd <email protected>
> baumannd <email protected>
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>
> Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd
> http://www.linuxfreak.com/~baumannd
>
> "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code."
>
> -- Dave Olson
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I just set var $allowcache = "no"; in my session class and it goes away now.
Well guess I should've investigated a little further before I decided to
post to the list :P.

Dan
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