session not passing variable

[Partyman]

I am having problems getting sessions to work. I may be missing something but as far as I can see the following very basic scripts should work.

page1.php

<?php
session_start();
session_register("variable");
$variable="anything";
echo $variable
?>

page2.php

<?php
session_start();
echo "the variable is $variable";
?>

Calling page1.php on my machine will display the variable but calling page2.php will not.

Please, will someone tell me what is going on?

[zcketcher]

More than likely it is because you are working with an install in which global variables are not turned on. This is good and here is what has worked for me:

session_start();
$_SESSION["variable_name"] = "somevariablevalue";

... Then on any page just:

session_start();
$x = $_SESSION["variable_name"];

... To unset it use:

unset($_SESSION["variable_name"]);

[TouchTheClouds]

... and my session doesnt show session id with link:

//login.php
<?
session_start();
functions; //functions to check login & pass and session_register, works well
?>



//index.php
<?
include("login.php");
?>
<a href=somelink.php>LINK</a>

i tried to write session_start() one more time in index.php, however it doesnt help.

[Alex_roscoe]

cookies are enabled, if they are blocked, they will automaticly get added

[Partyman]

Thanks for all the feedback. For the time being I have enabled global variables which works.

I will try your other recommended solutions once I have progressed a little further. I understand that there can be security issues with global and form variables (although precisely what, I do not know!).