[Resolved] Testing of sessions on my computer but didn't work..

kcgame

Hi,

I have a major problem here..all along i assume that my sessions in the code are working until i do a test today 🙁

I declared the sessions at every page as follows:

session_start();
if(($_SESSION['name']) && ($_SESSION['pswd'])) { //session registered
// ok
}
else // redirect to other page

Today, i opened two browsers on my computer and log into different users (User A log-in at the first browser and User B log-in at the second browser).
They showed up the correct page which shows their information. HOWEVER , when i click a link in the first browser, it shows the information of the User B...which is not supposed to:mad:

Why is this happening? I though sessions are supposed to remember each user's info and maintain all the way until i log out? Or is it just that my testing method is incorrect..

Please, i need help and advice.
Thank you.

vaaaska

Were the different browsers, or both, say Firefox? That could explain the problem...

http://be2.php.net/session

kubis

Originally posted by kcgame
Today, i opened two browsers on my computer and log into different users (User A log-in at the first browser and User B log-in at the second browser).
They showed up the correct page which shows their information. HOWEVER , when i click a link in the first browser, it shows the information of the User B...which is not supposed to:mad:

If you open two browser window, they do share the same cookies; i.e. the session identifier

try to open two different browsers, like IE and Firefox

kcgame

I used the same browser for both (IE)...

So the problem does not lies with my codes^{^.} Will try to use a different browser for testing in future.

Thanks, guys.

kubis

it has nothing to do what kind of browser do you use; but if you open two IE browser window, they both share the same running iexplore.exe, that means they share the same environment, and if you change a cookie value in one browser window , it can be read from the another window

open either two instances of iexplore.exe (usually by clicking the internet explorer icon for each instance) or use one browser IE and the second one Firefox