General session question

mwdrago

Are there certain browsers that sessions don't work on, or are there settings that could make sessions not work? I'm having this weird problem where some of my users can access my phpBB board but others are getting redirected like they had never logged in. I added my session control to the phpBB boards and while it works for me others are getting redirected. Now, if they log in again they're able to get to the message board.

shawon22

session uses cookies so if cookeies are turned off sessoin won't work

theeper

Sessions do not need cookies enabled to work. The session data can be passed as a cookie or as part of the URL.

mwdrago

What happens is if the user logs in correctly it sets his/her username as $session_valid_user.

This is how I start my sessions every page

//clear session variables

$session_valid_user="";
$session_sessid="";
session_name("user_session");
session_start("");

if ($session_valid_user) {
	$login_status = 1;

	} else {


	$login_status = 2;
	}

then I call this function

function check_login_status ($login_status) {
		if ($login_status!=1) {
			header("Location:index.php");
		}
	}

It's only when users click on the message board part of the website that this doesn't work. And even then it works for some of the users. 😕