Session start()

thesilencer5

Hello

I want to create a Login-area. I have two input-fields for username and password.
After the user has filled out this lil´form, I´m starting a session with session_start() and storing the username and pass inside the session-file. So long, it´s all right. My problem is in my second script. How can I extract the stored data from the session-File???

When I start the second script also with session_start(), a new, empty session will be created. If I try to extract the username and pass from here, I´ll get (of course) an undefined index-error.

can anyone tell me, how to code this??
Greetz

PS: my register_globals are off.

twilson

silencer,

Are you passing your Session ID correctly and using the $_SESSION array to retrieve your variables?

Sounds like the first would be your problem. If you are passing it how are you doing it?

Peace,
Tom 🙂

thesilencer5

Hello. I´m not shure. But here are my 2 scripts:

Script 1: ---->

</head>
<?php
$User = "testuser"; $Pass = "blabla";

@session_start();
$sessionID = session_id();
$SESSION['sessionID'] = $sessionID;
$SESSION['User'] = $User;
$_SESSION['Pass'] = $Pass;
?>

Script 2: ---->

<?php
$session_id = "sess"; $sess .= @$POST['sessId'];
@session_start($session_id);

$username = $_SESSION["User"];
echo $username;

?>

Do you know where my problem is?
Greetz

trooper

I tried in on my dev server and no problems
:-)

Take the @ off the call to session_start();

If you have any errors then have the @ will surpress them.

Also have you actually enabled session usage in your ph.ini file

If you save them as files then don't forget that the location you have specified in your session.save_path setting must actually exist.

HTH

thesilencer5

Hello.

Sessions usage is already enabled, and the path is existing.
But it won´t work!!
I still get a second, empty session file after session_start().

Any other ideas?

trooper

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