Re: Problem with sessions

got it now! it was a prob with passing and array to a function"Jj Harrison" <webmaster@tececo.com> wrote in message news:20020720112915.38024.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I have a login script which calls this function if it is a proper user etc. > > function register_in_session($uinfo){ > // Used in conjuction with validate to input user info into the session > $_SESSION['uid'] = $uinfo[0]; > $_SESSION['gid'] = $uinfo[1]; > $_SESSION['banid'] = $uinfo[2]; > $_SESSION['username'] = $uinfo[3]; > $_SESSION['fname'] = $uinfo[4]; > $_SESSION['lname'] = $uinfo[5]; > $_SESSION['email'] = $uinfo[6]; > } > > as a test i use this function in all my pages. > > function welcome_or_login(){ > if(isset($_SESSION['fname'])){ > echo 'Hello '.$_SESSION['fname'].'.'; > } else { > do_h('Login', 3, 'y'); > do_hr(); > login_form(''); > } > } > > Only on the login page my test user's name is displayed. On all other pages > it reverts to the login form. > > the files all link to a required includes file which includes all of the > functions. > > Here are my php.ini settings for sessions. > > ; Handler used to store/retrieve data. > session.save_handler = files > > ; Argument passed to save_handler. In the case of files, this is the path > ; where data files are stored. Note: Windows users have to change this > ; variable in order to use PHP's session functions. > session.save_path = C:\PHP\sessiondata ; argument passed to save_handler > > ; Whether to use cookies. > session.use_cookies = 1 > > > ; Name of the session (used as cookie name). > session.name = SID > > ; Initialize session on request startup. > session.auto_start = 0 > > ; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0, until browser is restarted. > session.cookie_lifetime = 0 > > ; The path for which the cookie is valid. > session.cookie_path = / > > ; The domain for which the cookie is valid. > session.cookie_domain = > > ; Handler used to serialize data. php is the standard serializer of PHP. > session.serialize_handler = php > > ; Percentual probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started > ; on every session initialization. > session.gc_probability = 1 > > ; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and > ; cleaned up by the garbage collection process. > session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 > > ; Check HTTP Referer to invalidate externally stored URLs containing ids. > session.referer_check = > > ; How many bytes to read from the file. > session.entropy_length = 0 > > ; Specified here to create the session id. > session.entropy_file = > > ;session.entropy_length = 16 > > ;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom > > ; Set to {nocache,private,public} to determine HTTP caching aspects. > session.cache_limiter = nocache > > ; Document expires after n minutes. > session.cache_expire = 180 > > ; use transient sid support if enabled by compiling with --enable-trans-sid. > session.use_trans_sid = 1 > > url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry" > > I don't pass along the session id manually either. > > My server is windows 2000 server with ISS 5.0. - 400mhz pII 256mb ram 40gig > hdd. > > This is my first time using sessions so i could be doing anything > -- > JJ Harrison > webmaster@tececo.com > www.tececo.com > >