Options in startSession() causing ErrorException - possible cause

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Bug Report

Summary

New issue connected to issue #3

Current behavior

The sessions_start() in function startSession() can cause an ErrorException under certain circumstances.

How to reproduce

Create an environment, where the options set in startSession are defined in a per-host configuration

Expected behavior

No ErrorException.

I started this in issue #3 but never found the cause for the descripted behaviour.

But I stumbled across this comment in the comments section on php.net for the command "ini_set":

"I have experienced on some systems that ini_set() will fail and return a false, when trying to set a setting that was set inside php.ini inside a per-host setting."

Okay, he is talking about ini_set() and not session_start(), but that's exactly the cause in my case. in my local development environment I don't have host-specific ini-settings. So that exception was never thrown there. But on my production server it's the case. There is a global php.ini but for the host (apache environment) are certain ini-settings defined. "use_cookies" is one of them and when I removed that from the host ini-settings the same error was thrown but this time for "use_only_cookies" (the next parameter in order in your session_start() call).

So I suspekt that this is the cause for the exceptions.