Session variables not passing across pages...

[acero]

I have a login processing page that starts a session and sets some session variables...

		$bResult = session_start();
		$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['iUserIdnt'] = $iUserIdnt;
		$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['aSections'] = $aSections;

	header('Location: tools/?' . session_name() . '=' . session_id());

when it redirects to the tools/ directory the index.php page (I have also tried a full URL with no luck) uses an include function to create my menu based on the session variables...

<?include("../ssi-includes/ssiMenu.php")?>

The below code is the include file code... (a better way of handling "section" based permission would be aprreciated, but passing the session variables is my main issue)

	//which is strange because the URL is: tools/?PHPSESSID=f443d8e38ba914c9f7a564f5482ad825
	print session_id(); // Is blank on this page...
	if(isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['iUserIdnt'])) {
		while($iSection = $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['aSections']) {
			if($iSection <= 1) {
				print "				<tr>\n";
				print "					<td nowrap><a href=\"tools/member.profiles.php\">Home</a></td>\n";
				print "				</tr>\n";
			}
			else if($iSection <= 2) {
				print "				<tr>\n";
				print "					<td nowrap><a href=\"tools/profile.php\">Home</a></td>\n";
				print "				</tr>\n";
				print "				<tr>\n";
				print "					<td nowrap><a href=\"tools/children.php\">Home</a></td>\n";
				print "				</tr>\n";
			}
			else if($iSection <= 3) {
				print "				<tr>\n";
				print "					<td nowrap><a href=\"tools/profile.php\">Home</a></td>\n";
				print "				</tr>\n";
			}
		}
	}

However, the session variables seem to be empty when I get to the included page...

[intenz]

Try...

session_start();
$_SESSION['iUserIdnt'] = $iUserIdnt;
$_SESSION['aSections'] = $aSections;
header('Location: tools/?' . session_name() . '=' . session_id());

[acero]

No luck...

[Weedpacket]

session_start();
$_SESSION['iUserIdnt'] = $iUserIdnt;
$_SESSION['aSections'] = $aSections;
header('Location: tools/?'.SID);

And check that you're using session_start() on the next page.

You also look like you're about to get into a lot of trouble on the next page - you have a loop which looks like it's never going to end (when is $iSection = $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['aSections'] ever going to be false?)

[acero]

yeah i think you are right.. i was going to attempt to loop through an array, but I am gonna go with the for() loop instead :-)

thanks for catching that.

btw, I didn't realize session_start() needed to be on each page... once I added it to every page I didn't need to send in the SID or anything :-)