If the code works in other browsers, it may be a bug in firefox. I suggest you read through relevant information on http://developer.mozilla.org/ to find out specific information for Firefox. On May 21, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Jim Hu wrote: Darren VanBuren onekopaka(a)gmail.com ---------------------------------------------- Administrator of Onekopakaspace

Not solved, but here's some more information. In my function execute(), I added: $output .= $_SESSION['TableEditTesting']; $_SESSION['TableEditTesting'] .= "testing\n"; In Safari clicking an action button -> testing In Firefox(Mac) clicking an action button -> testing testing Weird. I'm not sure that this actually explains the problem. JH On May 21, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Jim Hu wrote: ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

I'm not sure if anyone is following my replies to self, but just in case... I have a workaround, but I don't understand it. There were multiple problems. First, I had to call wfSetupSession if the session wasn't already established. That makes sense to me. I think that accounts for the situation where the session variable wasn't there at all. Second, the part that doesn't make sense to me: In Firefox, the session would get written on the first load, but then it wouldn't get updated. To update the session variable, I have to reload the page, via a url that has a session variable in it. I'm doing this via a line that reloads the page once. $ff = trim($wgRequest->getText('ff')); #echo "ff:$ff"; if($this->act['view'] == '' && $ff == '') header("Location:".$this- $this->url = $wgServer.$wgScriptPath."/index.php? title=Special:TableEdit&pagename=$this->page_name&id=".$this- $_SESSION['TableEditView'] is a session global that I set at the end of the execute method in my special page. What is very, very weird to me is that 1) There has to be a session variable in the URL 2) It can't just be $_SESSION['foo'] 3) This doesn't work if I put the same session variable in the input hidden via POST I don't like this solution, but it works, at least as far as I've tested it. I'd be happier if I understood why it works. Wrt the original problem ... why only in Firefox? During my exploring the problem, I found various things that are could be related, including: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-cache-limiter.php "In private mode, the Expire header sent to the client may cause confusion for some browsers, including Mozilla. You can avoid this problem by using private_no_expire mode. The expire header is never sent to the client in this mode." But changing this in GlobalFunctions doesn't fix the problem. JH On May 24, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Jim Hu wrote: ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054