Recently I was working with a few WordPress websites and WPEngine, some of these websites were using plugins working with PHP sessions and I wasn’t aware that WPEngine does not like sessions
Anyway, I found a snippet to test it out:
<?
// Start Session
session_start();
// Show banner
echo '<b>Session Support Checker</b><hr />';
// Check if the page has been reloaded
if(!isset($_GET['reload']) OR $_GET['reload'] != 'true') {
// Set the message
$_SESSION['MESSAGE'] = 'Session support enabled!<br />';
// Give user link to check
echo '<a href="?reload=true">Click HERE</a> to check for PHP Session Support.<br />';
} else {
// Check if the message has been carried on in the reload
if(isset($_SESSION['MESSAGE'])) {
echo $_SESSION['MESSAGE'];
} else {
echo 'Sorry, it appears session support is not enabled, or you PHP version is to old. <a href="?reload=false">Click HERE</a> to go back.<br />';
}
}
?>
Sadly but true, they don’t like sessions.