Using the $_POST global in LiveCode server

[Mike Bonner]

Still haven't got a test set up.  So trying the quicker easier way.. Hey
everyone, in which versions of server are sessions not broken?

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:17 PM Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Version 7.1.0 doesn't seem to work.  (the version used by on-rev.)  Pretty
> sure its been in this non-working condition for a while.  (again, my faulty
> memory might be wrong)   I'll try and set up a test for later versions, but
> pretty sure things were still working in the 6.x range of server engines.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:03 PM Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Its been a while since I messed with sessions, but that looks right.  I
>> seem to vaguely remember that there is some version of LC server where
>> sessions is broken, but I can't recall for sure.  What version of server
>> are you running?   (IIRC sessions was implemented some time around 4.6.3?
>> And a later version was broken and later fixed)  I'll see if I can relocate
>> the info.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:53 PM Tim Selander via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Mike.
>>>
>>> This seemed like a good hint/possible solution.
>>> > Another though has just occurred to me also..  If you use session
>>> > variables, you can store the search term in the session, and since the
>>> > browser will re-post on reload, if $_POST and your session variable
>>> contain
>>> > the same search term, its possible (likely?) that it was a reload
>>> rather
>>> > than a new search, then don't do the search. Not sure if this is
>>> helpful,
>>> However, when I tried
>>> <?lc
>>> start session
>>> put "test" into $_SESSION["keyword"]
>>> put $_SESSION[keyword]
>>> stop session
>>> ?>
>>> and the server returned the error
>>>
>>> file "/home/pba/public_html/lifelinesearch.lc"
>>>    row 2, col 1:
>>>
>>> This snippet is at the very top of the page, so row 2 is "start session."
>>>
>>> Am I misundertanding the syntax of 'session'?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
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