Maintaining session state problems??

[benok]

Hi everyone,

I have a signup.php file which contains a whole bunch of fields that users put details into when they are registering for my website. When the click the submit button, it goes to validate.php to validate all the fields are valid (i.e -> not empty etc etc).

So when the user clicks submit it goes to validate.php, I get all the variables from the first page by doing something like this.

$SESSION['phpFirstName'] = $POST['htmlFirstName'];
etc
etc

If there is an error, I want to go back to the signup.php page and notify the user of the offending fields on the form. Say the user didn't fill in the first name, I would return to the signup page like this:

header("location:http://address/signup.php?errors=firstname");

when I go back to the signup.php page, I expect that all other variables that passed validation have been "session"ized and that I can display them in the form without the user having to fill them in again - however the session variable doesn't seem to work and there is nothing in there when i return.

How can this be???

[dewen]

can you post the code in signup.php

Also, do you try to do a

print_r($_SESSION);

to see if session vars been set?

plus, did you use session_start() on each script if it's not enabled in php.ini?

[LoganK]

Edit: Darn! You beat me to it!

Make sure session_start() is called in both your scripts before any output, even whitespace before the <?php tag.