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PHP Browser Persistent Data with PHP Data Persistence on the Web Wrapping It All Up

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
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Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Debugging PHP Story app

Hello all,

I was able to follow and complete the course using localhost and it works perfectly at the moment.

But when I port it over to my website over at https://projects.jonniegrieve.co.uk/php_story/ there are a number of bugs that I can't get my head around.

  1. The website doesn't redirect to story.php after the 5th stage and instead the URL shows p=6 in the browser.

  2. No cookies are saved although PHPSESSID does show up in Chrome DevTools. so I can see that PHP is creating a session.

I wondered if it might be something to do with PHP versions but both my localhost and my web server use PHP7.

I just wanted to see if others had the same bugs?

1 Answer

lukej
lukej
34,222 Points
lukej
lukej
34,222 Points

I have a similar issue. Unfortunately configuring php production servers is not straightforward, and a lot of individual tweaking is usually necessary.

Running php_info() on your server will show you the current settings of php, make sure cookies and sessions are enabled.