Re: !!Urgent .. Session Problem Solved ... But not completely

thank u all .. I really did all of what u said but nothing worked !!!!!!!!!!!!! which was so so strange The problem was that the php.ini file I have got corrupted or something that the php.exe couldn't parse all of its values Any way thanks again .. Now I have another error with the same file and session the errors are as follows //===================================================== Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php:1) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php on line 2 Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php:1) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php on line 2 //===================================================== "Dre" <dre00x@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20040904080637.92239.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi > > I'm trying to make a small login system on my website, I'm using > > Apache 2.0.49 for testing locally > and PHP 4.3.4 > on MS Windows XP Pro. > > the login script is in the file logme_in.php shown below > > //============================================================ > > <?php > session_start(); > include("db.php"); > > $username = trim(addslashes($_POST['user_name'])); > $pass = trim(addslashes($_POST['password'])); > > if((empty($_POST['user_name'])) || (empty($_POST['password']))) { > > echo "enter username/password"; > } > > else{ > $sql = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE user_name='".$username."' AND > password='".$pass."'"; > $result = mysql_query($sql); > $num_return = mysql_num_rows($result); > > if($num_return ==1) > { > $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); > session_register('uname'); > $_SESSION['uname'] = $username; > > } > else { > echo "invalid username/password"; > } > } > > ?> > //============================================================ > > The problem is that every time I try to login I keep have the following > error messages > > **************************************************************************** > ****** > Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_2984f6d378560d0882f37728dbe1defc, > O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Program Files\Apache > Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php on line 3 > > Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent > by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache > Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php:2) in C:\Program Files\Apache > Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php on line 3 > > Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers > already sent (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache > Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php:2) in C:\Program Files\Apache > Group\Apache2\htdocs\ELBA\logme_in.php on line 3 > > Warning: Unknown(): open(/tmp\sess_2984f6d378560d0882f37728dbe1defc, O_RDWR) > failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 > > Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that > the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on > line 0 > **************************************************************************** > ******* > > the session.save_path parameter in my php.ini file is as follows > ************************************** > session.save_path = "C:/WINDOWS/Temp" > ************************************** > > I'm kinda new at php and web development environment .. so any help will be > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > Dre,