sessions not working

irishgirl2004

Hi,
I am using the following for sending data


session_start();

$_SESSION['sendm'] = $Destination;

and on the following page


session_start();
	if (isset($_SESSION['sendm'])) {
   		$Destination = $_SESSION['sendm'];
   		}
	else {
	echo "no address";
		}

the variable is always empty? i'm using php version 4.4.3 + register globals is turned off?

any ideas?

devinemke

where/how is $Destination being set on the first page?

NogDog

Are cookies enabled on your browser?

Are both pages being accessed via the same domain and sub-domain?

If neither of those are the issue, you might want to do a [man]phpinfo[/man] and check out the settings in the "session" section of the output.

irishgirl2004

hi,
$Destination = 'test@xxx.com';

yes, they are on different pages, same domain + same browser.....

bradgrafelman

What is the value of the 'session.use_cookies' directive? If it isn't already, have you tried enabling this?

If you echo [man]session_id/man on both pages... do you get the same ID both times?

EDIT: Is display_errors set to On, and error_reporting set to E_ALL ?

Jourdain

The first thing that springs to mind is that you need to call

session_register("sendm");

before trying to write to the variable

irishgirl2004

echo session_id() is the same.... for both pages

suntra

Jourdain wrote:
The first thing that springs to mind is that you need to call

session_register("sendm");

before trying to write to the variable

NEVER !

This is totally deprecated !

Use $SESSION["var_name"] = "value"; to set a session variable, and simply access it using $SESSION["var_name"]...

So please, don't consider Jourdain's advice 😉

irishgirl2004

i do not use session_register...

any other suggestions?

bradgrafelman

On the first page, after you set $_SESSION['sendm'], have you tried echo'ing it out? Perhaps it's not being set correctly (e.g. the variable it's getting its value from is incorrect/blank/something).
How does the user get transferred to the second page? Via a header() redirect? If so, try adding a [man]session_write_close/man before you send the header() redirect.
suntra is right - never use session_register.

irishgirl2004

when i echo $SESSION['sendm'] on the first page i get the value assigned, the user then gets redirected to the next page i close the session before the redirect, then i redirect to the final page where the $SESSION['sendm'] variable is blank..... wierd?