[RESOLVED] A moment a go sessions were working, fresh pair of eyes to check pls

mars16

in previous i ask a question n later worked something out myself BUT it was working fine and it doesnt, please check. Its starting and destroying a session:

loginout.php (page that logs in or out depnding on session exsistance)
<?PHP
//start a session:
session_start();

//if there is no session, mean user clicked on login button so set a session and return them to home
if (!isset($SESSION['loggedin'])) {
$SESSION['loggedin']="loggedin";
header('Refresh: 3; URL=destin.php');
print("You are now LOGGED IN. You will be redirected.");
print ($_SESSION['loggedin']); //i out this here to prove that session been set to the word loggodin
}

//else i assume user must have clicked on logout so destroy session
else {
//remove all the variables in the session
session_unset();

// destroy the session
session_destroy();

//header( 'Location: destin.php') ;
header('Refresh: 3; URL=destin.php');

print("You are now LOGGED OUT. You will be redirected.");
}

?>
menu code:
<?php

if (!isset($_SESSION['loggedin'])) {
print ("<li><a href='loginout.php' >LOG IN</a></li>");
}
else {
print ("<li><a href='loginout.php'>LOG OUT</a></li>");
}

the above looks fine, and even a print statement shows that session been set to the word loggedin BUT the other pages are still assuming that session is not set yet so they keep on hiding certain features.

all my pages have a session_start(); using include

leatherback

In the other pages, place a print_r($_SESSION); after the session_start() command, to see what gets passed.

As this code seems OK (Except for the fact that logging in doesn't make sense in this case: If everybody loggs in without pass, why have it. I presume you will expand it), youshould show us what you do in the subsequent pages to check wehther a person is logged in.

stolzyboy

just a note:

Note: Only use session_unset() for older deprecated code that does not use $_SESSION.

mars16

leatherback, yes i will add username n pass later, m doing it in small steps just to understand whats happening.

i think my session_start() NOT working, could it be turned off somewhere?

am using now a much simpler script to narrow down the problem.

<?php
session_start();

if(isset($SESSION['views']))
$SESSION['views'] = $SESSION['views']+ 1;
else
$SESSION['views'] = 1;

echo "page refresh count= ". $_SESSION['views'];
?>

No matter how many times i refresh the page the count stays at 1, i think i must have turned off by accident the session_start somewhere.

mars16

am using wamp to test my work, so just to check if its to do with settings i have changed by accident, i tested on my friends wamp (same version) n the code works as desired. so i remeber once or twice opening the php.ini file to make sure globals was switched on so i mustt have changed setting of something else that i can't remeber. if anyone knows what setting turns off sessions not to work, please let me know.

mars16

i just copied my friends wamp folder then replaced the data files with mine.