Re: Session management issues

There are two potential problems (unless, of course, there's more to your pages than what you're showing us). Do you put a session_start() at the top of each page? If not, you won't be able to share variables across pages. Also, are you sure the session id is getting passed to each page? If not, it will start a new session each time and your variables will never be registered. Also, you shouldn't need the second session_start() in the else block of the login page. At 11:28 AM 10/24/01 -0600, Jason McIntyre wrote:

Hi there: I am using PHP 4+ and MySQL to manage access to secured areas on a website. My problem is that my session functions don't seem to be working properly. Even after I start and register a session variable, my function to check that session variable says that it doesn't exist. Help! Here are the scripts: Login page: <? require_once("db_con.php"); -creates the database connection require_once("user_auth.php"); - authenticates user in database session_start(); if($txtUsername && $txtPassword) { $result = login($txtUsername, $txtPassword);

     if (!$result)
     {
        header("Location: loginerror.php");

} else { session_start(); session_register("valid_user"); $valid_user = $result; - this passes in the unique id of the person who logged in. header("Location: ../memberso/default.php?idccacon=".$valid_user);

     }
      exit;
    }

?> --------------------------------- Now if the user exists it opens the ...default.php page, which has this code ... <? require_once("valid_user.php"); check_valid_user(); - which is in the valid_user.php This is the function that is called. <? function check_valid_user() { global $valid_user; if (!session_is_registered("valid_user"))

      header("Location: ../secure/accesserror.php");

} ?> thx! Jason -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net