Sessions help needed!
| From: | John Fuller | Date: | Sat, 05 Jul 2003 19:41:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Sessions help needed! | ||
| Groups: | php.db | ||
| Request: | Send a blank email to php-db+get-29098@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
Hello all,
I am new to php in general and am trying to set up a user authentification system with mysql.
The registration page works well and sends all of the data to the appropriate table in mysql.
However, when I try to get the registered user to log in and start a session, the system will not
remember the session information past the page. For instance, this page will not work (the one that
initially is supposed to register the session from the login form):
<?
session_start();
$username="chris";
$database="login";
$login = $_POST['login'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
if((!$login) || (!$password)){
echo "Please enter ALL of the information! <br />";
include 'login.php';
exit();
}
mysql_connect(localhost,$username);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$sql=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM login WHERE login='$login' AND
password='$password'");
$login_check = mysql_num_rows($sql);
if($login_check > 0){
// This is where I register the session
session_register('login');
$_SESSION['login'] = $login;
mysql_close();
include 'success.php';
} else {
echo "You could not be logged in! Either the username and password do not match or you have
not validated your membership!<br />
Please try again!<br />";
include 'login.php';
}
?>
It proceeds to login the user for that page (I know this happens because I have played around with
it looking at the error checks), but it will not display any variable that resembles
"$_SESSION['login']".
The next page sequentially (success.php) looks like this:
<?
session_start();
echo 'Successful login for "$_SESSION['login']"';
?>
Any and all variations of this page come up blank and white whenever the variable
$_SESSION['login'] is called to display. It shows no memory of me registering a session.
Any variation of quotes verse apostrophes changes nothing, so I figure that either I am blatantly
screwing up the session code (possible for I have never written any sessions before) or my system is
not supporting sessions. I have a php4 something, windows, apache 1.3.27 for my home network
server, and mysql. Any help on this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot for your time, John
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