Re: sessions

blackwater dev wrote:

I have an old site which uses this code on login: //it does a query then if ($affected_rows>0){ session_start(mysite);

is 'mysite' a constant? if not then that line should be: session_start('mysite');

          session_register('admin');
          $wardadmin = yes;

notice that you register 'admin' and then set $wardadmin to 'yes' ... maybe that is the problem.

	      header("location: admin.php");

} and in the top of admin.php: session_start(mysite); if (@$admin != "yes") {

    header("location: login.php");
    exit;

} The host recently upgraded to php 4.4 and now the login doesn't work. I do notice when I login that the page goes to admin the right back to login. Why doesn't admin see the session var?

probably because register_globals has been turned off. also the use of session_register() is depreciated in favour of the $_SESSION superglobal... so: <? // start the session before this bit. if ($login_is_admin) { // <!-- psuedo var $_SESSION['admin'] = 'yes'; } else { $_SESSION['admin'] = 'no'; } // and if ('yes' == @$_SESSION['admin']) { // your an admin }

Thanks!