session_start();

SoulAssassin

I manage to hold my value to the 2nd page, but looses it by the 3rd page.

1st page(Form):
session_start();
$SESSION['brokercode'] = $POST['brokercode'];

2nd page:
session_start();
echo 'Broker Code - '.$_SESSION['brokercode'].'';

3rd page:
session_start();
echo 'Broker Code - '.$_SESSION['brokercode'].'';

Should I re POST it between my 2nd and my 3rd?
Please help, because this session is killing me.

stewartship

if sessions are functioning normally should work, as a test copy the session variable into a new variable, i.e. on 2nd and 3rd page:

$test_sess_var = $_SESSION['brokercode'];

echo $test_sess_var;

to make sure that the value still exists. If not check to make sure you have not blanked the session variable by accident or unset it somewhere.

SoulAssassin

Thanks for your reply.
The test works on my 2nd page, which means my value POST from the 1st page.
Not on the 3rd Page though.

1st Page - login.php (login with Brokercode and Password)
2nd Page - capture.php (Form. Session holds Brokercode and POST all values to 3rd)
3rd Page - captureconf.php (INSERT values to db, including Brokercode)

The Sessions on the Server is correctly setup.

Any Ideas?

stewartship

hmmm....

Bit of a stange one, if sessions is working and the session variable works on one page it should be working.

Could you post the scripts so i can have a look through for you, could possible be one of those annoying and easily done syntax problems!

SoulAssassin

Here it is.
I had to edit some out, because the form is really long.
But basictly if you can just check how the session should the brokercode to add it in at the conf page.

Thanks 4 your time.

<?php
session_start();
include("config.php");
$msg = "";
if (isset($_POST['Submit']))
{
	$brokercode = $_POST['brokercode'];
	$user_pass = md5($_POST[user_pass]);


$result = mysql_query("Select * From login_table where  brokercode='$brokercode'",$con);

if(mysql_num_rows($result)>0)
{
	$row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_BOTH);
	if($password == $row["user_pass"])
	{
		$_SESSION['brokercode'] = $_POST['brokercode'];
		$_SESSION['user_pass'] = $_POST['user_pass'];
		$_SESSION['loginok'] = "ok";
		$_SESSION['level'] = $row["user_level"];

		header("Location: ../user.php");

	}
	else
	{
		$msg = "Password incorrect";
	}
}
else
{
	$msg = "Username incorrect";
}

}

?>
<body link="#000000" vlink="#000000" alink="#000000">
<table width="82%" border="0" align="center">
  <tr> 
    <td colspan="2"><br> <br> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td width="100%" colspan="2"><div align="center"><strong><img src="../images/logo.gif" width="270" height="30" border="0"></strong></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td height="21"><div align="right"><a href="../index.php"><img src="../images/home.gif" width="126" height="27" border="0"></a></div></td>
    <td><a href="../excel.php"><img src="../images/excel.gif" width="126" height="27" border="0"></a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td height="21" colspan="2"><p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
      <form name="form1" method="post" action="">
        <p align="left"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
          </font><?php echo "<font color='red'>$msg</font>" ?><br>
          <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please enter 
          your username and password to login</font></p>
        <div align="left"> 
          <table class="table" width="33%" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#000000">
            <tr bgcolor="#000000"> 
              <td colspan="2"><div align="center"><font color="#FC9801" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>LOGIN</strong></font></div></td>
            </tr>
            <tr> 
              <td width="53%"><div align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Broker 
                  Code :&nbsp; </font></div></td>
              <td width="47%"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
                  <input name="brokercode" type="text" id="brokercode" width="100">
                  </font></div></td>
            </tr>
            <tr> 
              <td><div align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Password:&nbsp; 
                  </font></div></td>
              <td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
                  <input name="user_pass" type="password" id="user_pass" width="100">
                  </font></div></td>
            </tr>
            <tr> 
              <td height="26"></td>
              <td><div align="center"> 
                  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
                </div></td>
            </tr>
          </table>
        </div>
        <p class="smallErrorText"><a href="/forgot.php"><br>
          <br>
          <br>
          <br>
          <br>
          Forgot Password ? </a></p>
      </form>
      <p align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> 
        </strong></font></p>
      <p align="left"></p></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td height="21" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td height="21" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

user.php

<?php
session_start();
$brokercode = $_SESSION['brokercode'];
echo $brokercode;
echo "<br>";


//$brokercode = $_POST["brokercode"];
$surname = $_POST["surname"];
$initials = $_POST["initials"];
$idnumber = $_POST["idnumber"];

?>

<form method="post" action="userconf.php">
  <table width="98%" border="0" align="center">
    <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> 
      <td><div align="right"><strong>Broker Code: </strong></div></td>
      <td> 
	  <? echo ''.$_SESSION['brokercode'].''; ?>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> 
      <td width="39%"><div align="right"><strong>Surname: </strong></div></td>
      <td width="61%"><input type="text" size="60" maxlength="36" name="surname"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> 
      <td><div align="right"><strong>Initials:</strong></div></td>
      <td> <input type="text" size="12" maxlength="12" name="initials"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC" > 
      <td height="24"><div align="right"><strong>ID Number:</strong></div></td>
      <td><input type="text" size="60" maxlength="36" name="idnumber"></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
</form>

userconf.php

<?
session_start();
$brokercode = $_SESSION['brokercode'];
echo $brokercode;

$surname = $_POST["surname"];
$initials = $_POST["initials"];
$idnumber = $_POST["idnumber"];

 if (isset($submit)){

				       $conn= mysql_connect( "localhost", "user", "password" )
					   or die( "Err:conn" );
					   $rs = mysql_select_db( "my_db", $conn )
					   or die( "Err:conn1" );
					  $sql = "insert into customers (brokercode, surname, initials,idnumber)
Values
('$brokercode', '$surname', '$initials', '$idnumber')";
 $rs = mysql_query( $sql, $conn );


  if($rs){ 

echo "Entry Added";

}
?>

stewartship

Hi SoulAssassin

I believe the problem is occuring due to the use of:

header("Location: ../user.php");

as a redirect to the third page.

There was a forum discussion i read recently similar to this:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=14636

There were a couple of different solutions on this thread, one involving the settings in the php.ini file for session.auto_start, and i am pretty sure there was talk of the fact that using the header (Location ..) technique could be resolved by:

session_write_close();
header("Location: $strPage");
exit();

using session_write_close(); before the header call. Have a try using this technique, if it does not work, and none of the solutions work from the thread, write back and we will try some more solutions!

SoulAssassin

I actually just started cleaning up all my code, and fixed one or two simple mistakes, and it's working perfectly now.
Thanks for you time, and I'll go read on it.

stewartship

No problem, here to try and help!

Yeah does tend to be easily overlooked syntax problems that can cause errors, one miscellaneous ';' can do a lot of damage!