session problem

LordRogaine

I'm having a problem with passing variables from one page to the next. I am putting session_start; at the top of my pages. after I register my variables with sessions I am including a page I want to be brought to. Problem is the session variables don't seem to go with it. Any ideas?

session_start();

	session_register('username');
	$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
	session_register('first_name');
	$_SESSION['first_name'] = $first_name;
	session_register('last_name');
	$_SESSION['last_name'] = $last_name;
	session_register('email_address');
	$_SESSION['email_address'] = $email_address;

	include 'http://mysite.com/login_success.php';

twilson

Rogaine,

First off, when using the $_SESSION array, there is no need to use session_register.

Secondly, I think even though the next page is being included into your current one, you still need to pass it your session id variable in some way. I think changing it to:

include 'http://mysite.com/login_success.php?SID';

MIGHT work. No guarantee's though since I've never tried it.

Peace,
Tom

LordRogaine

seemed like a good idea but it didn't work. Thanks for trying to help. (still scratching my head)

twilson

Well, you can try using cookies. Right before your include do something like:

$user_session_id = session_id();
setcookie("session_id_set","$user_session_id",time()+9999999,"", "mysite.com", "");

(Make sure to substitute mysite.com with your domain, unless it really is mysite.com 🙂

Then in the included file, do:

session_id($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[session_id_set]);
session_start ();

Worth a try? 🙂

Peace,
Tom

LordRogaine

that didn't work either. I must have done something wrong with the script somewhere. I'm going to rewrite the whole thing from scratch.

Thanks for trying Tom. I appreciate the help!

twilson

No problem. Wish I could have gotten it to work. =\

Peace,
Tom

LordRogaine

not a problem. your help was greatly appreciated

lcp2000

I use sessions also, and they are as follows:

index.php

<?php
$refid=$_GET['refid'];

if(!empty($refid)) {
 $p = $refid;
 session_start();
 session_register("p");
 }

else {
 $p = "NO_REFFERER";
 session_start();
 session_register("p");
 }
?>

All_Other_Pages.php

<?php
 session_start();
 print"$p";
?>

Hope this helps.

LordRogaine

thanks