Problem with Sessions

auchrins

I'm trying to use authorize users to post on a discussion board.

file1> login.php

if ($status == 1)
{

session_start();
            session_register('SESSION_UNAME');
$SESSION_UNAME = $USERNAME;

// I put this in to check to see if all's ok

    print session_encode();
    print "your session id is:".session_id();
    printf("You are now logged in as $SESSION_UNAME. Please <a href=\"http://lesclos.com/forum.php\">click here</a> to continue.");

}

This part seems to work okay and yields:

SESSION_UNAME|s:8:"BillCowher";
your session id is:8cb53a4da3732208c8afe0177a0c0e3c
You are now logged in as BillCowher. Please click here to continue.

Then in file2 - forum.php

session_start();
if (!$SESSION_UNAME) { do stuff...}

but it doesn't do stuff. Instead it goes to a please login form

session id is the same, but $SESSION_UNAME is gone!

I took this program from an online tutorial and changed a few things but couldn't get the original to work as it was anyways.

I'd appreciate any help.

bastien

session_register("SESSION_UNAME");

to your second page

auchrins

...and get the same thing.

Still not "doing stuff"

suntra

What if you replace $SESSION_UNAME by $_SESSION["SESSION_UNAME"] ???

auchrins

Suntra, tried it and didn't work.

BUT I think it might be a problem writing the server's session files.

Thank you all for your responses. Let me check the server and I will post back.

auchrins

As I suspected, my ISP does not allow one to write to the tmp file. So I used

session_save_path("/sessions");

and created a file that i could write session info to.

I guess that's why I'm a "newbie". A more experienced programmer would have known to look for that. I didn't realize it until someone told me to look at the error logs.

I guess there's a lesson in here.

Thanks to all who helped. In a little bit I'll post the completed discussion board URL so you can all critique it and/or use it or alter it to your liking.

Thanks again.