RE: Sessions and switching between php and htm documents

I haven't experienced this myself, but I'd have thought that if you're propagating the session via the URL rather than a cookie then it won't get added if the page isn't parsed. If it's not passed on just once it's lost. Tim Ward Internet chess www.chessish.com <http://www.chessish.com> ---------- From: Dave [SMTP:dave@hawk-systems.com] Sent: 27 February 2002 04:37 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Sessions and switching between php and htm documents login.htm form submits information login.php session_start(); $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["username"]=$formUserName; header("Location: displaypage.htm"); displaypage.htm show some static stuff links to formpage.htm formpage.htm form submits information to form.php form.php session_start(); echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["username"]; <- has no value Does the chain of pages have to be continually PHP pages to allow the transition of the session variables? if not, any ideas on why we are losing session variables? Dave