session problems

[Anon]

Hi all,

I'm taking my first foray into using sessions in PHP4 and I'm having more than a few problems.

I'm using this function to start the session and register 3 variables :

function startsession($username,$pswd){

if(!$PHPSESSID){
    //start session
    session_start();

    session_register("sess_name");
    $sess_name = $username;

    session_register("sess_pswd");
    $sess_pswd = $pswd;

   session_register("userauth");
   $userauth = 1;      

}

}

if I call the function then echo("") the 3 variables straight back out, I get nothing - it seems the session variables arent being set.

But, if I echo the variables within the function, they work. what am i doing wrong?

all the documentation I've found just tells me that I have to register the session variables then assign them a value. But I cant seem to retrieve the variable afterwards. What am I doing wrong?

The PHPSESSID cookie is definitely being set - why can't i retrieve the session variables?

[Anon]

Hi Kerin.

Try it so.

function startsession($username,$pswd){

if(!$PHPSESSID){

//start session
session_start();

$sess_name = $username;
session_register("sess_name");

$sess_pswd = $pswd;
session_register("sess_pswd");

$userauth = 1;
session_register("userauth");

}

}

kerin wrote:

Hi all,

I'm taking my first foray into using sessions in PHP4 and I'm having more than a few problems.

I'm using this function to start the session and register 3 variables :

function startsession($username,$pswd){

if(!$PHPSESSID){
    //start session
    session_start();

    session_register("sess_name");
    $sess_name = $username;

    session_register("sess_pswd");
    $sess_pswd = $pswd;

   session_register("userauth");
   $userauth = 1;      

}

}

if I call the function then echo("") the 3 variables straight back out, I get nothing - it seems the session variables arent being set.

But, if I echo the variables within the function, they work. what am i doing wrong?

all the documentation I've found just tells me that I have to register the session variables then assign them a value. But I cant seem to retrieve the variable afterwards. What am I doing wrong?

The PHPSESSID cooki....

[Anon]

I thought start_session had to be almost the first entry on a main page, not in a function; or am I wrong here?

paulsim

[kikidonc]

maybe a session is already on, and in that case, the if statement see a $phpsessid and don't set your new variables...

try the same but extracting your session_register from the if statement
function startsession($username,$pswd){

if(!$PHPSESSID){
//start session
session_start();
}

session_register("sess_name");
$sess_name = $username;

session_register("sess_pswd");
$sess_pswd = $pswd;

session_register("userauth");
$userauth = 1;

echo $sess_name.", ".$sees_pswd.", ".$userauth;

hope it'll help.
Fred.