Sessions

[Norman]

Hello all..

I'm trying to use sessions to do a "login" and verification application of sorts.

At first it worked..

I setup the Sesison vars (After session_start) and then submit to a new page which does some other stuff..

after teh first page (the one where I setup the session vars), I have a include that does a session_start() and then looks for the session vars.

This is done before anything else on the page, of course, but when I try to access the $_SESSION array there is nothing there. It was working earlier.

As well.. it works in one page $_SESSION['loginid'] but not in the next page.

So now I'm like really confused..
Is there an easy way to track this down..

Dave

[m_tt]

No code = no solution, simple : )

[Norman]

Umm Okay..

The reason I didn't post the code to begin with was because it spans many pages and many lines..

So here is the short version:
Problem is, when session.php is reached, loginid and userid are blank, no session array is populated..

works on this page:

<?
// Page for the main site.. 
// Of course, first we check the cookies

// First - this page will be used to set session too .. 
$TIMEOUT_VAL = 300;
// Let's checkt o see if we are setting the sessions.. 
if ($_GET['sess'] == 'y') {
    session_start();
    $_SESSION['loginid'] = $_GET['i'];
    $_SESSION['userid'] = $_GET['u'];
    $_SESSION['last_access'] = time() + $TIMEOUT_VAL;
} else 
    require_once('/home/drago353/public_html/global/session.php')

require_once('/home/drago353/public_html/global/df-standard.php'); //Requirments for pages
// We've passed, let's go on through
$u = $_SESSION['userid'];
$i = $_SESSION['loginid'];
if ($_GET['l'] == 'n') {
    header("location: [url]http://df.com/events/main/index_home.php?u=[/url]$u&i=$i&l=n");
} else { 
    header("location: [url]http://df.com/events/main/index_home.php?u=[/url]$u&i=$i");
}
?>

But not this one:

<?
require_once('/home/drago353/public_html/global/session.php'); //Session setup

require_once('/home/drago353/public_html/global/df-standard.php'); //Requirments for pages
require_once('main/class_main.php');

$tpl = new evtMain;

$tpl->assign('date', strftime('%B %d, %Y (%a)', time()));
$tpl->assign('displayname', $tpl->make_display_name($_SESSION['i']));

$tpl->display('welcome.tpl');

?>

Contents of session.php

<? 
//session.php

// This verifies that the session has started, if not, resbumitts to login
// This should be the First included page

session_start();
$TIMEOUT_VAL = 300; // Debug - 5 min, normal 2700

if ($_GET['l'] == 'o') { // Logout
    header('Location: [url]http://df.com/events/[/url]');
    exit(0);
}

if ($_SESSION['loginid'] == '' || $_SESSION['userid'] == '') {
    header('Location: [url]http://df.com/events?errcd=9d[/url]');
}

// Check the timeout
$now = time();

if ($_SESSION['last_access'] + $TIMEOUT_VAL < $now) {
    print_r ($_SESSION);
    $to = ($_SESSION['last_access'] + $TIMEOUT_VAL);

$_SESSION = array(); // Clear
session_destroy();
header("Location: [url]http://df-ent.com/events?errcd=9c&1=[/url]$to&2=$now");
} else { // update
    $_SESSION['last_access'] = $now;
}

?>

Originally posted by m@tt
No code = no solution, simple : )

[majiclab]

I know for one thing that using <A hRefs> in HTTP Header Location is completely illegal as far as HTTP standards go.

I doubt that's the problem, but I know that's not how the Internet works...

Try adding this code to the top of session.php just after session_start():

print '<pre>';
print_r($_SESSION);
print '</pre>';

If that prints nothing, then I don't really know what's wrong...

-Percy