session problems

Jgreenday

can anyone help me out with my session problem, the code connects to the Database fine its just the session that doesn't seem to work,

<?
if ($submit = "Login")

{
mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password") or

die ("Could not connect to database");

mysql_select_db("DATABASE") or
dir ("Could not select database");

$result=mysql_query("select * from users where username='$username'")
or die ("cant do it");

while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
if ($row["password"]==$password )
{
session_start();
$_session = "98127398abasdfiu98123nius";

echo"Successfully Logged In!"; 
echo '<br /><a href="page2.php?' . SID . '">page 2</a>';
  }else
  {
echo"Nope";

}
}
}
?>[/COLOR]

the following error appears when its run

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/edinburg/public_html/admin01/login.php:9) in /home/edinburg/public_html/admin01/login.php on line 25

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/edinburg/public_html/admin01/login.php:9) in /home/edinburg/public_html/admin01/login.php on line 25

can anyone help out, my coding is prob very bad, lol, kinda new at sessions
thanks

Weedpacket

If you searched these forums with the text of your error message you'd learn that you cannot send any output to the browser (no HTML, no text, yea, not even a blank line) before doing anything (like starting a session) that sends headers. So make sure you're not doing anything like that: perhaps make session_start() the first line in your script.

You'll have more problems later.

$_session = "98127398abasdfiu98123nius";

won't do anything useful. First, it's $_SESSION (case is important), second, $SESSION is an array you put things into; you'll need to come up with some sort of name for that bit of info and go

$_SESSION['somesortofname'] = "98127398abasdfiu98123nius";

Thirdly, you want

if ($submit = "Login")

to be

if ($submit == "Login")

and fourthly you probably want it to be $_POST['submit'] and ditto for other variables passed from the form (as noted in the manual, this is how variables are collected from POSTed forms, now).

phplearner

Go see the Reply Post I just did to the following thread:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10258051

😃

Jgreenday

its fixed now, thanks for your help guys

basicly all i need to do was put $_session into caps then put session_start() before the html