User Management System

silent

I am writing a small user management system - to control login/logout, and mySQL management of the users. It is a class (because OOP rules). Everything works fine, except when it comes to the session management.
I am using HTTP_SESSION_VARS instead of _SESSION because the web server I will use this on (and some of the other people I am writing this for) use PHP 4.0.6 or less.

Here is the code

function do_login($name, $password) {
global $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;
global $HTTP_SESSION_VARS;
global $HTTP_GET_VARS;
global $HTTP_POST_VARS;

  if($this->encrypt) { $password = md5($password); }
  if(!$this->login($name, $password)) {
    $bad = $HTTP_GET_VARS['bad'];
	$this->redirect($bad);    

	exit;
  } else {
    session_start();
	$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['id'] = $this->get_id($name);
    $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['name'] = $name;
	if(isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['ref'])) {
	  $loc = $HTTP_GET_VARS['ref'];
	  $this->redirect($loc);
    }
  }
}

The problem is that the session data is not viewable after a test login... I have the form redirecting to test.php, which is just :

session_start();
print_r($HTTP_SESSION_VARS);

THat's it. If I login using the user management class, when it is redirected to test.php, it shows that the array is empty. If I send the login to another page that is just straight non-oop PHP, it works fine. Am I missing something???

Thanks in advance!

silent

This seems like an odd way to fix it, but putting the session_start() at the top of the class file (instead of inside a function inside of the class) made it work. I don't think there are any drawbacks to ALWAYS calling session start, but if there are, let me know?

Thanks.

I am attaching the class to this file in case anybody has any suggestions. I want to build a very usable user management class.

silent

Anyway - I thought it was working. But it's not!!! I don't get this. I know how to do this normally, but it seems to not work correctly when I am using a class...... grr!!!

Ok, the last post contains the source code if anybody wants to see it (it's not close to done yet - I still have a lot of cleaning up to do)