The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and '-,'

Question

How to solve :

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-

Answer 1

There is a bug report for this problem (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68063)

You can check the success of your session_start and generate the id if needed:

$ok = @session_start();
if(!$ok){
session_regenerate_id(true); // replace the Session ID
session_start(); 
}