sessions

[bike5]

I have having trouble passing a variable threw my sessions.

Page 1: session_start();
session_id("$POST[login_name]");
$SESSION["cur_page"] = "home";
header("Location: dbl.php");

Page 2 require("include/session.php");
echo $_SESSION['cur_page'];

Page 3(sessions.php) session_start();

My page 2, will not display "home" like I am asking it to. Is there a way to do this, keeping the way of page one starts everything and headers:location to page 2 which calls page 3 that cantains the session_start to continue it. Any help would be great thanks.

[bike5]

I even tried a couple test pages and it still doesn't work.

Page 1:

<?php 
session_start();
session_id("555"); 
$home = "home";
$_SESSION['cur_page'] = $home; 
echo $_SESSION['cur_page']; //This prints out correctly
echo session_id(); //This prints out correctly
?>

Page 2:

session_start();
if($_SESSION['cur_page']){ 
       echo "The session is still registered.<br /><br />";
} else { 
       echo "Ok, the session is no longer registered! <br />";
//It says it is no longer reistered
echo session_id();
//now the ID says "cbc7e43882b79100cad059b45efffaf3"
}
 

I have no idea why its not connecting these pages. Is there something I am missing?