Re: Re: SESSION and include

ok.. I was a little too fast again when explaining my problem.. Gonna put some code up for you to see... First of all I DO use quotes. I tried both single and double ones (',") Ok here are some code: IN LOGINSCRIPT: <? /* Check User Script */ session_start(); // Start Session include 'db.php'; // Convert to simple variables $username = $_POST['username']; $password = $_POST['password']; if((!$username) || (!$password)){ echo "Please enter ALL of the information! <br />"; include 'index.htm'; exit(); } // Convert password to md5 hash $password = md5($password); // check if the user info validates the db $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username' AND password='$password' AND activated='1'"); $login_check = mysql_num_rows($sql); if($login_check > 0){ while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){ foreach( $row AS $key => $val ){

       $$key = stripslashes( $val );

}

       $_SESSION['first_name'] = $row["first_name"];
       $_SESSION['last_name'] = $row["last_name"];
       $_SESSION['email_address'] = $row["email_adress"];
       $_SESSION['user_level'] = $row["user_level"];                header("Location: index.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 'index.htm'; } ?> IN INDEX.PHP: <? session_start(); if ( empty( $_SESSION['first_name'] ) ) { ?> <center><font color=red><strong>You are not logged in!</strong></font></center><br /> <? include 'index.htm'; } else { include 'db.php';

              include("http://test.bluenotevoices.se/data.php");

?> [... Some code here...] /* defining variables ... ($main is actually transered from last page the user was on, so in my script it is not defined but I put the code here to let you see it...) */ $main="page.php"

               <?php  if ("1"==$_SESSION['user_level']){
               ?>          [ Some working code here ]
                  <? }

require ($main); ?> } IN PAGE.PHP <?php session_start(); include "data.php"; if (empty($_SESSION['user_level'])) { echo ("Session is empty");} ?> [More code here] Can you see anything I am doing wrong? /F Jochem Maas wrote:

Fredrik Tillman wrote:

ok.. Let me explain the problem better. 'user_level' is set by a login script. It seems to be working fine since I can make things like: if ("1"==$_SESSION[user_level]) { let this stuff happen }

$_SESSION[user_level] is wrong unless 'user_level' is a defined constant in your code (I bet it isn't). instead write: $_SESSION['user_level'] -- notice the quotes, they delimit the _string_ that is the key of the array. array keys are either strings or integers.

on my mainpage. on that same mainpage I use include ("page.php"); (I also tried require...) If I access page.php directly (by writing the URL in my browser) things like if ("1"==$_SESSION[user_level]) { let this stuff happen } will work just fine, but when page.php is included in mainpage the $_SESSION[user_level] is empty for that included part...

how is $_SESSION['user_level'] being set and/or updated? have you tried a var_dump($_SESSION) on the included page to see what _is_) in the session? are you per change closing the session prior to including the relevant file? I think you'll need to show some code - the way you describe it seems to me to be not possible that $_SESSION['user_level'] is set in the first script and nolonger available in the included script ($_SESSION is a super global that is available everywhere so long as there is an active/open session)