[Resolved] Loosing my session

spstieng

I thought I have read all I needed to read to use sessions....

I have a login page which calls an authentication page.
At the very top of the authentication.php I have:

session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE6 fix
$_SESSION['_userID'] ='';

If the login is accepted, I set a few variables and the user is automatically redirected to another page:

$_SESSION['_userID'] = $row['empID']; 
$_SESSION['_username'] = $row['empFname'].' '.$row['empLname']; 
$_SESSION['_totalCalls'] = $row['totalCalls']; 
$_SESSION['_totalSales'] = $row['totalSales']; 

echo '<script language="Javascript">'; 
echo 'window.location="'.DIR_HTTP_ROOT.'main.php"'; 
echo '</script>';

At the very top of main.php I have

session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE6 fix
$_SESSION['_userID'] ='';

But when I try a: echo 'USER NAME:'.$SESSION['username'];
I gete nada, zip, nothing!

Why?????

Kudose

Becuase in your main.php page you're setting your $_SESSION to null by doing this:

$SESSION['userID'] = ' ';

Take that out then you can echo your username info. By calling session_start() it pulls the session info. You dont have to rename it and all that everytime.

You could even check out the extract() and do even more with your sessions.

spstieng

The $SESSION['userID'] = ' '; is set in the authentication.php not in main.php.

But just to test, I did remove it. And it didn't work.
Still can't display the session variables.

Kudose

The $SESSION['userID'] = ' '; is set in the authentication.php not in main.php.

At the very top of main.php I have

PHP:

session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE6 fix
$SESSION['userID'] ='';

You sure you dont have $SESSION['userID']=''; at the top of main.php?

Take out the redirect just to humor me and echo the session variables you told it to hold and see if they do. If they do then we know it is an issue with main.php, otherwise it is with your authentication page.

spstieng

Page 1 - index.php

The page starts with:

include_once('config.php');
include (DIR_INCLUDE.'basicHeader.inc.php');
include (DIR_INCLUDE.'init.php');

and my form which calls for authentication.php

Page 2 - authentication.php

session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE6 fix

include_once('config.php');
include (DIR_INCLUDE.'basicHeader.inc.php');
include (DIR_INCLUDE.'init.php');

Here I check if the username and password is valid. IF it is valid, I set some session variables.

$_SESSION['_userID'] = $row['empID']; 
$_SESSION['_username'] = $row['empFname'].' '.$row['empLname']; 
$_SESSION['_totalCalls'] = $row['totalCalls']; 
$_SESSION['_totalSales'] = $row['totalSales'];

At this point, I can write:
echo 'USER NAME:'.$SESSION['username'];
This will output the user First name and Last name.

I removed the 'window.location="'.DIR_HTTP_ROOT.'main.php"'; and replaced it with a simple HREF link:
echo '<a href="main.php"> CLICK </a>';

Page 3 - main.php

Here is the start of the page:

session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE6 fix

include_once('config.php');
include (DIR_INCLUDE.'basicHeader.inc.php');
include (DIR_INCLUDE.'init.php');

echo 'USER NAME:'.$_SESSION['_username'];

With the same output as in Page 2, but the session variable is blank :-( I use session_start() on every page except the index page. And I don't reset any session variables....
😕

spstieng

Need to solve this "simple" problem pretty fast really.

Any help appreciated!

spstieng

I hadn't set the directory for which the sessions where to be saved!

Once I set this in PHP.ini it worked :rolleyes: