Title: [Plugin: WP Carousel] Messing up the PHP session data
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Carousel] Messing up the PHP session data

 *  [mra13 / Team Tips and Tricks HQ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mra13/)
 * (@mra13)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-carousel-messing-up-the-php-session-data/)
 * The plugin is messing up the PHP Session data when it is active.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-carousel/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-carousel/)

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 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-carousel-messing-up-the-php-session-data/#post-2608978)
 * WP Carousel uses 2 session variables to store information about the active extras:
   $_SESSION[‘WP_CAROUSEL_CUSTOM_EXTRAS’] and $_SESSION[‘WP_CAROUSEL_EXTRAS’].
 * It uses two other session variables to store whether WordPress is executing the
   loop and the list of carousels shown.
 * It won’t use any other session variable.
 * If you are more specific I could help you more.
 *  Thread Starter [mra13 / Team Tips and Tricks HQ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mra13/)
 * (@mra13)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-carousel-messing-up-the-php-session-data/#post-2609100)
 * Are you checking if a session already exists before doing a session_start? Otherwise
   you will destroy the existing session.
 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-carousel-messing-up-the-php-session-data/#post-2609156)
 * WP Carousel does not use session_start(). WordPress starts the session before
   WP Carousel’s code is executed.
 *  [Zeses](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeses/)
 * (@zeses)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-carousel-messing-up-the-php-session-data/#post-2609247)
 * Hi, we are still experiencing problems with this plug-in in relation to the above
   issue, can i please give you access to our web site so that you can see the problem?
 * we are using it on this web site
    [http://cosmeticsbysia.com.au/](http://cosmeticsbysia.com.au/)
 *  [Zeses](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeses/)
 * (@zeses)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-carousel-messing-up-the-php-session-data/#post-2609263)
 * Sumolari, i haven’t had a response from you regarding the issue, are you able
   to work with our developer to resolve this issue please?
 *  Plugin Author [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * (@sumolari)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-carousel-messing-up-the-php-session-data/#post-2609264)
 * I’m very busy right now, and I can’t fix a problem that I can’t see.
 * If you think WP Carousel is causing this problem with sessions, just try to fix
   it. If you find the problem I’ll fix it as soon as possible.
 * In any case, I want to rewrite the plugin and fix a lot of problems, but not 
   now. I have no time to rewrite the plugin right now nor to look for a problem
   I can’t reproduce.

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 * Last reply from: [sumolari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumolari/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-carousel-messing-up-the-php-session-data/#post-2609264)
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