session var not staying registered

Anon

I have a login page "http://members.mysite.com/login.php" which accepts the username and password via a form post to $PHP_SELF. The data is verified via MySQL calls, and if username and password match, it then assigns a value to a pre registered session variable -session_register("session")-.

Everything at this point works. I have tested the session var and everything is as it should be. I have tested with session_is_registered, and it is, and I have printed out the session_encode with everything as it should be.

Next, my script calls header("Location http://members.mysite.com/main.php") which is in the same site, and the main.php page does not have the "session" variable registered. On the "main.php" page, the first thing I have is session_start(), and I test imediately for session_is_registered("session"), and it is not.

What am I missing?
THanks
John

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Manuals are fun, you should try reading it.

Sessions require that you send the session_id from page to page.
If you don't, PHP doesn't know which session you want to use, and it will create a new blank session.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

Anon

Ouch, that was cold.

From:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

"The session support allows you to register arbitrary numbers of variables to be preserved across requests. "...using session_start(), session_register()....

I'm sorry that you mis-understood my request and the manual clearly state that I am doing what the manual says. And yes I RTFM'ed already. However you do NOT have to send the session from page to page, that is what session_start and session_register are for, perhaps you should re-read the manual.

Thanks for the support.

vincent wrote:

Manuals are fun, you should try reading it.

Sessions require that you send the session_id from page to page.
If you don't, PHP doesn't know which session you want to use, and it will create a new blank session.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

miasma

You should be more informed when informing others. This is only the case when you are not using cookies (which is the default way I believe) to carry your session id.

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However you do NOT have to send the session from page to page, that is
what session_start and session_register are for, perhaps you
should re-read the manual.

sigh

Don't be a smartass and read the F-ing manual.

Read the third line on http://localhost/manuals/php/ref.session.html

"A visitor accessing your web site is assigned an unique id, the so-called session id. This is either stored in a cookie on the user side or is propagated in the URL."