Smarty

[stwong]

Hi, I'm newbie to PHP and Smarty and migrating some PHP codes written by others to new server.

The main PHP script has some session variables defined. However, after displaying a template:

$smarty->display('show_form.tpl');

all session variables are gone:
- session_status shows session is active
- session_id shows the correct session id
- /var/lib/php/session/sess_xxx file becomes empty after submitting the form in the template.

the template is a simply form looks like following:

<form name=myForm onSubmit="return validatePwd()" method="POST" action="{$smarty.server.PHP_SELF} ">

session_start() is called at the very beginning of the main PHP script.

Besides sessions variables, all variable defined are also lost,eg.

$b1 = $_SESSION['logined'];

We're using PHP 7.2.24 bundled with CentOS8.
And using Smarty 2.6.30 (not using Smarty 3.x to minimize change of the PHP code...).

Would anyone please help?

Thanks a lot.

[AnrDaemon]

Check network traffic (from browser dev. tools). Is the session cookie correctly passed back and forth?
Any errors in the logs? Perhaps, your PHP is unable to write session state.

(Short answer: not a Smarty issue.)

[stwong]

I think network traffic are passed through. The PHP script write some _POST variables to _SESSION and can see them in the session file under /var/lib/php/sess_xxx. Then the variables in the file are gone upon submitting the form within the template.
There is no error logged.

>Short answer: not a Smarty issue.
Thanks, will do more debugging and maybe post in PHP forum.