Re: PHP Session problem...

Hi Stephen, Yes i test by printing the values and cancelling redirection. It works very fine. I am really not able to understand why sessions should fail on redirection. I tried all the testing u have mentioned before posting to this news group. Well anyways lemme if anything else comes to your mind. Thanx, Guru. "Stephen" <stephen.edmonds5@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:005e01c31281$8fed4a80$5c00a8c0@q... > Well first of all, get rid of automatic redirection. Then, I suggest > outputting "messages" to the browser so you can see what is happening. For > example: > > Creating session variables: (i am explicitly calling session_start()) > $row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_BOTH); > > $_SESSION["uid"] = trim($row[0]); > print '$_SESSION["uid"] > ='.$_SESSION["uid"].'<br>Input was > '.trim($row[0]).'<br>'; > $_SESSION["uname"] = trim($row[1]); > print '$_SESSION["uname"] > ='.$_SESSION["uname"].'<br>Input was > '.trim($row[1]).'<br>'; > > print 'Session ID is: '.session_id().'<br>'; > > file://header("Location: bohome.php?"); > > The most imporant thing is to make sure that a) the values are going in and > that b) the session id which is output to the browser is EXACTLY the same in > both pages! > > session_start(); > ob_start(); > > $userid = trim($_SESSION["uid"]); > $username = trim($_SESSION["uname"]); > > if( $userid == "" ) > { > print 'Session ID is: '.session_id().'<br>'; > file://header("Location: index.php?msg=err&" . $userid); > exit; > } > > I use print statements, you may be familiar with echo instead. You may do > which ever you wish. Using output messages like this is perhaps THE SINGLE > most important skill to learn when programming. It makes finding errors > easier and faster, and also helps to pinpoint bugs :-) > > Stephen > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Guru P Chaturvedi" <bangboy2k2@hotmail.com> > To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:51 PM > Subject: [PHP-WIN] PHP Session problem... > > > > hi all, > > > > i'm really really confused and fed up of the PHP sessions. it works > > sometimes and fails horribly rest of the times. please take a look at the > > code: > > > > Creating session variables: (i am explicitly calling session_start()) > > > > $row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_BOTH); > > > > $_SESSION["uid"] = trim($row[0]); > > $_SESSION["uname"] = trim($row[1]); > > > > header("Location: bohome.php?"); > > > > it get's thru very well and get's redirected to bohome.php > > > > if that file i have this peice of code: > > > > session_start(); > > ob_start(); > > > > $userid = trim($_SESSION["uid"]); > > $username = trim($_SESSION["uname"]); > > > > if( $userid == "" ) > > { > > header("Location: index.php?msg=err&" . $userid); > > exit; > > } > > > > here the $userid is becoming "" and thus redirects back to index page. why > > is this behaving so... what cud be the problem...? please help me out.... > > > > regards, > > guru. > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > >