[RESOLVED] header("Location /"); interrupt __destruct()

[knowj]

currently my authentication class puts the set objects into session vars within the destruct. this seems to fall to pieces when i use this system with my login script which contains a header("Location: /"); followed by exit(); would the change of headers and exit(); prevent the class from destructing thus not setting the session vars?

if this is the case would it be bad practice to remove the exit();?

public function __destruct()
	{
		$_SESSION['uid'] = $this->uid;
		$_SESSION['level'] = $this->level;
	}

[laserlight]

I am not sure what is the problem, but I am fairly certain that you should not remove the exit: it is there to prevent anything from executing after the location header. This may sound like it should also prevent the destructor from being called, but the exit should trigger the destructor, from what I understand of how it works in PHP.

[bradgrafelman]

Try adding a [man]session_write_close/man to the end of your destructor so that it forces PHP to close and save the newly-updated session data to disk immediately.

[knowj]

Sorted now thanks. Lazerlight was right thanks the problem was me using $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC) rather than $results->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC) within my authentication required page causing an infinite loop between the login and members pages.

99% of my problems are usually down to a tiny mistake within the variable naming.

thanks laserlight and bradgrafelman

[laserlight]

Hehe, thanks for the thanks, but it looks like you solved this one entirely by yourself 🙂

Oh, and remember to mark this thread as resolved using the thread tools.

[knowj]

wrong post