Re: Ok, next step/question

Ok. Just realised that you might have meant that I need that session_start(); statement on the first line of every page? Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@cknet.co.za> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Ok, next step/question

Already got that one on the very first line of the initial (index.php) page, and I am assigning an array element in that first page, which seems to work fine. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Crow" < james@ultratans.com> To: "Jacob Kruger" < jacobk@cknet.co.za> Cc: < php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Ok, next step/question

Jacob, You must issue a session_start() prior to outputting any code to the browser for sessions to work. There are tons of different ways to configure things, but session_start() as the first thing in the script should get you started. Here is a basic example: index.php: <?php session_start(); $_SESSION['test_me'] = 'My test $_SESSION variable'; // stores a value in the $_SESSION array ?> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=page2.php"> </head></html> ################## End of index.php ################## page2.php: <?php session_start() ?> <html><head><title>Page 2</title></head><body> <?php echo $_SESSION['test_me']; ?> </body></html> ################# End of page2.php ####################### The index.php page simply stores a value in the $_SESSION super global array and then immediately redirects to page2.php. page2.php retrieves the value stored by index.php and displays it as the content of the web page. This code is all from memory so it might have a bug, but it is how I got started working with session support in PHP. Thanks, James On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:26 +0200, Jacob Kruger wrote:

Now got that main page redirecting/spitting out the relevant JS code to get it to move on to the next page, but there I was trying to ascertain if the session variable/array element had actually been set, and, for whatever reason, no PHP code seems to be executing in main.php. Below is what I currently have inbetween the <body></body> tags: <? php echo "testing..."; ?> Before I was trying to do something along the lines of: echo $_SESSION["admin"]; And that also did nothing. I also tried changing the static HTML content to see if maybe the output was just being cached or something, but that renders correctly. Any ideas? (am I just not 'trying' correctly or something) Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

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