[RESOLVED] need help with sessions

[daltman1967]

here's what I have in my login script:

                  session_start();
                  session_name("book");
                  $_SESSION['username']=$u;

Once it redirects back to index, here's what I have:

  if(isset($_SESSION['username']) 
    {
     ...
    }

But it gets neither the session name nor username. What the heck am I missing? I need help on this ASAP!!

[dagon]

you need session_start(); on any page you want to read as well as write to a session

[bradgrafelman]

Also note that you'll have to use [man]session_name/man to set the name on every page as well.

However, this won't really matter since you aren't even using [man]session_name/man correctly in the first place (e.g. calling it before attempting to start the session - it does little good to tell PHP which named session to look for after you've already told it to start the session... can't put the cart in front of the horse, you see).