Sessions and URLS

zingbats

I have discovered something that annoys me and I am looking for a possible solution.

On a file called index.php a file called header.php is included. Header.php shows a login bar if a usersession doesn't exsist, and a member bar if a session DOES exsist.

Now, the system works fine so long as I don't put a URL in the include box. If I tell it to include http://www.whatever.com/header.php it won't work. I have to make it include header.php.

I assume that because you are supposidly changing server, it deletes the session? I am right? If so, how can I get around this?

Cheers
Alex

laserlight

Maybe something to do with the include path?
Anyhow, specifying an absolute path or some URI means you'll have to edit the path if you move to a different server.

zingbats

Yeah... but the header.php include file only works if I put like

<? include ("header.php");?>
//or
<? include ("../header.php");?>

Not when I use the full URL. Any ideas why?

jayc

Saying require('header.php'); is correct because it includes the file in the same directory of the server where your index.php (or what have you) is executing.

Trying to include http://www.whatever.com/header.php (assuming require knows how to handle http protocl, which I doubt it does) means a request is being made over the HTTP protocol for the file header.php, which your HTTP server will try to serve up. Thus, header.php would get processed by PHP by the web server, then sent BACK to your script to try and get included.

Get what I'm saying? You're working with source files on your harddrive but trying to access them through a public protocol over the Internet.

Make sense?