$_session across multiple pages

[Yaak]

Hi,

If I am correct then, the $_SESSION variable/array is a storage mechanism that can store variables to pass information between several pages. As the name implies, the variables set are stored for the entire session.

I currently have a page that does the following:

Page1:

$_SESSION["authenticated"]="incorrectEmail"

I want to use this session variable page2:

$authenticated = "";
if (isset($_SESSION["authenticated"]))
{
				$authenticated=$_SESSION["authenticated"];
}
print "authenticated= " . $authenticated;
switch ($authenticated)
{
  case "incorrectEmail":
  print "your email is incorrect";
  case default:
  print "not authenticated";
}

This second page will always output "not authenticated", although the first page did set the authenticated session variable

What am I doing wrong?
(I'm using PWS 4, PHP 4)

Thanks for your/any help,
Yaak
🙂 🙂

[bastien]

include the line

session_start();

[Yaak]

I did include this setting (although in the documentation it explicitly tells you not to if using the $_SESSION array).

I included this in the first page, but still to no success.

Any other suggestions ?

thanks! 🙂

[Weedpacket]

No, it explicitly tells you not to use session_register(). You have to use session_start() on every page that uses sessions; it initialises the $_SESSION[] array.