Session issue

Hi,

I am dong a small website project using PHP,Mysql.

Now facing certain prob with session. Am using session to check the login status of user on a required page.

I have 2 files login.php and login2.php. When a values login and password is posted to login2.php, both the posted variables are validate them.

Below code is from login2.php which gets exe after successful validation:

session_start();
session_register("sess_login");
$sess_login=$login;

header("Location: index.php");

now the prob is after i redirected to index.php, am not able to access session var $sess_login. Remember register_glaobals var is set to "On".

But if i replace header with javascript window.location=index.php, it works.

Refering to this can anyone tell why it happens so..

Thanks
OM

Depends on your version of PHP, but give this a try:

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['sess_login'] = $login;
?>

or...

<?php
session_start();
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['sess_login'] = $login;
?>

You may want to take a look at this link to understand why I did not use session_register():
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-register.php