[RESOLVED] Session variable wont register...

[gszauer]

Hi all, i am making a login script, and my session variables wont register.
Here is what login.php looks like

<?php
extract($_POST);
if ($submitted == "1" && ($server == "" || $user == "" || $password == "")){
  if ($server == "")
    $error = "Missing POP-SERVER";
  if ($user == "")
    $error = "Missing username";
  if ($password == "")
    $error = "Missing password";
} else if  ($submitted == "1" && !eregi('^([.a-z0-9-]+[._a-z0-9]*)@(([a-z0-9-]+\.)*([a-z0-9]+)(\.a-z]{2,3})?)$', stripslashes(trim($user)))){
  $error .= "Username is not a valid e-mail addredd";
} else if ($submitted == "1" && $error == ""){
  session_start();
  session_register("SESSION_USERNAME");
  session_register("SESSION_PASSWORD");
  session_register("SESSION_SERVER");
  $SESSION_USERNAME = $user;
  $SESSION_PASSWORD = $password;
  $SESSION_SERVER = $server;
  header("Location: inbox.php");
}
?>
<!-- Then the HTML login form is here -->

As you can see, if the variables are registered (Or if the form is submitted) the user will go to inbox.php wich looks like this:

<?php
session_start();
extract($_GET);
if (!isset($SESSION_SERVER)){
  header("Location: login.php");
}
$inbox = imap_open("{".$SESSION_SERVER.":110/pop3}", $SESSION_USERNAME, $SESSION_PASSWORD);
$total = imap_num_msg($inbox);
?>
<!-- The rest of the script -->

My problem is the user gets re-directed to login.php once the form is submitted.
Can anyone help me solve my dilema?
Thank you for your time
~Gabor

[NogDog]

My first suggestion would be to stop using session_register(), which depends on register_globals being on (and which is off by default since PHP 4.2.0). Instead use the $_SESSION super-global array, which should always be available:

first page:

session_start();
$_SESSION['username'] = $user;

next page:

session_start();
echo "User name is: " . $_SESSION['username'];

[gszauer]

Thank you for the solution, and the prompt response.
You have no idea how much i appriciate it!!!!
~Gabor

[HalfaBee]

You should also use session_write_close() before the header().

[suntra]

Another thing that is not related to sessions...

  header("Location: login.php");

You should use ABSOLUTE paths (like http://www.mydomain.com/myfolder/myfile.php), not relative paths (login.php)

You can use this :

Header('Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) . '/login.php');

[gszauer]

Thanks for the tip suntra.