[jQuery] PHP $_SESSION data empty in a jQuery AJAX call
Hello everyone.
I was racking my brain for a few hours today over a problem pertaining
to an AJAX call in jQuery.
Basically, I have the user click an item in a <select> list. Upon
clicking an <option> a .post request is sent to a script, which gives
me some HTML data to be added to part of the page. That part works
fine.
But, the server-side script also stores a variable in the $_SESSION
variable when it's called. But this is not stored in the clients
session as I anticipated. It appears to be being stored in the server
session or something.
Yes, session_start() is at the top of all files.
To test, I used print_r to output the whole $_SESSION variable in both
my static script, and to be returned by the AJAX call. The main script
outputs an entire slew of data stored in the $_SESSION variable, but
the content of the returned HTML shows only the single element in the
$_SESSION array that is set by that script.
I also had both scripts output their session_id()'s, and they're both
different. I attempted to use session_id() to set the ID of the AJAX
script to that of the main script (by sending the session_id as a
variable to the AJAX script, of course), but that didn't help either.
I couldn't figure out why this isn't working. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thank you!