Re: trouble with reading session variables: BUG?

> When using Cookies for session management everything works fine (the > authentication part). But not passing the values of the session variables. > In the example below the existence of '$ident' is verified. But no chance to > get its value: no 'echo' prints out anything! Even isset() denies the > existence of $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['ident']. > > -- example ------------------------------ > > session_start(); > if (!session_is_registered('ident')) { > header ("Location: ../index.php"); > } > // trying to retrieve $ident which is obviously known to the session > echo $ident; > echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['ident']; > echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['ident']; Registering a variable does not store that variable in a cookie. Only the users's "session" ID is stored in a cookie. ident could easily be registered, but be set to '' We'd need to see ../index.php to have any idea what you've stored in $ident.