session problem. pls help

[kenwu]

hi all,

i hv a problem about using session. i hv two php files. one is session.php and receive.php.
the problem is that when i access the page session.php at the first time, no output at all on receive.php. after that i access the page session.php again, correct result is show on receive.php.
so strange??

i got the same result on win2000+php4.3.0 and nt4.0+php4.0.4pl1.

got the same result even i change the value of register_globals to on and off

pls help, thanks.
ken

session.php
<?
session_start();
$_SESSION["stockcode"]="0001";
header ("Location: receive.php");
?>

receive.php
<?
session_start();
echo $_SESSION["stockcode"];
echo $stockcode
?>

[anthill]

Hi kenwu,

I'm kinda new to sessions and the like but had a play around with your code. Anyway I got it working fine, here's what I used:

session.php:

<? 
session_start(); 
$_SESSION['stockcode']="0001"; 
header ("Location: receive.php"); 
?>

receive.php:

<? 
session_start(); 
$stockcode = $_SESSION['stockcode']; 
echo $stockcode 
?>

The output first and every time was 0001.

I got changed ["stockcode"] to ['stockcode']
and declared $stockcode as the sessions rather than just echoing the session.

Hope that helps

Ant