problem with session variables

[chintupintu03]

Hello all,

I have problem with session variables handling.

Follwoing are the steps, I am doing for defining, passing and handling within my various programs.

Details begin here :
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In one form, the username and password are valid or not. If these are correct, then I do :
session_register("ses_memberid");

$_SESSION["ses_memberid"] = $row[member_id];

By this I am trying to define session variable.

From this program, the user gets redirected to another program.

In this second program, at the beginning I do :

if(!session_is_registered("ses_memberid"))
{
header("location:restrict.php");
}

else
{
// the required code.
}

Here, the control goes in the "ELSE PART". But if I try to "echo" the session variable value OR try to use it in the query formation, then it does show the value nor the value gets replace in the query.

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Details begin here :

I would like to get the help from members to overcome this problem. Am I doing something wrong OR the method is not correct ?

Waiting for reply.

thanks in advance.

regards,

[Weedpacket]

You should NOT be using session_register() or session_is_registered() in the same program as $SESSION[]. That way lies madness. session_register() and session_is_registered() were deprecated in 4.1, and won't even work by default starting in 4.2. They're years out of date, in other words.

$_SESSION["ses_memberid"] = $row[member_id];

(Incidentally, you've been here two years and you still haven't found the forum's formatting tags?)

if(!isset($_SESSION['ses_memberid']))
{ header("location:restrict.php");
   exit; // Otherwise the script will just keep running.
}