Sessions Issue can i borrow some expertise

chrisatlphp

I am having a \n issue passing session to another page from a Logon script to another page
I am using Apache 2.046
php 4.3.2
OS = Win2k

Logon script works fine
seesion_start() is above any html is sent
the seesion is created correctly( check session path and the seesion data is correct.
Here is the sql and seesion params from the logon page

// Query the database.
    $query = "SELECT user_id, first_name FROM users WHERE          username='$u' AND password=PASSWORD('$p')";
$result = @mysql_query ($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_array ($result, MYSQL_NUM);

if ($row) { // A match was made.

// Start session process
	$_SESSION['first_name'] = $row[1];
	$_SESSION['user_id'] = $row[0];

ob_end_clean(); // Delete the buffer.

header ("Location:  [url]http://[/url]" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . "db.php")
	exit();
} else { // No match was made.
echo '<p><font color="red" size="+1">The username and password entered do not match those on file.</font></p>';
}

mysql_close(); // Close the database connection.

} else { // If everything wasn't OK.
	echo '<p><font color="red" size="+1">Please try again.</font></p>';
     }

} 
// End of SUBMIT conditional.
include('header3.inc');
?>

here is the script from teh second page

<?php
session_start();
include('header3.inc');
include('config1.inc');
?>
<H3><font="#000000">
<?php
echo '<h3>Welcome';
if (isset($_SESSION['first_name'])) {
	echo ", {$_SESSION['first_name']}!";
}
echo '</h3>';
?>

chrisatlphp

forgot to tell the problem ..LOL.... the second page is not echoing the Nanme from the session id
Thanks
Chris

phplearner

Dunno if this will help, but some kind folks helped me out when I was going nuts over 'sessions':

$_SESSION['myvar'] = $_POST['myvar']; 
$url = "$nextpage.php" . "?" . session_name() . "=$sessid";
header("Location: $url");

Sure hope this helps!!!

BTW, I put this at the top of EACH page:

ob_start(); 
session_start();
$sessid = session_id();

And this at the bottom of EACH page:

ob_end_flush();

I dunno the difference from what you are doing, all I know is it WORKS!!! (After many, many frustrating hours to get there).

Good Luck!!!

(EDIT🙂 Ohhhh...
One thing which caused me over 20 hours of frustrating, wasted time was this (check your phpinfo file):

session.use_trans_sid

This MUST be set to either "1" or "On" for it all to work.