Re: Ok, next step/question

Ok. Just tested this on another machine as well, and I now see if I go to the phpInfo link on the WAMP server homepage on either machine it does seem to work, but not in my own pages. Also, rechecked on both machines, and I actually noticed that the very first line: <? php session_start(); ?> does in fact seem to be being processed/disappears, but the rest of the php code is still rendering unprocessed in those pages, so who knows. Maybe I should actually send some of you my actual page file in case there's something strange therein that I'm not noticing - who knows. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Horn" <matt@cypherpunk.za.net> To: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@cknet.co.za> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Ok, next step/question

does <?php phpinfo(); ?> return anything? On 15/01/2008, Jacob Kruger <jacobk@cknet.co.za> wrote:

Ok. Been trying out various things including double-checking if my error display settings were there etc. etc., and finally sort of figured out what was going wrong when I eventually saved the output of main.php from internet explorer after it was still not showing any output, and then I sort of discovered that for whatever reason, the PHP code isn't actually being interpreted/processed since it still shows up in the html source thereof. FWIW, here's the complete source code of that main.php file (as it appears when I edit it, or when I save it from IE): <?php session_start(); ?> <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 //EN"> <html> <head>

       <title>Admin main page</title>

</head> <body> <? php echo "admin?: " . $_SESSION["admin"] . "<br />"; echo "What the hell!?!?!?"; ?> </body> </html> Anyideas (and FWIW, I have tried changing various small things, but who knows...)? 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 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Ok, next step/question

That is correct. The session_start() command must appear in each script that needs to access the $_SESSION variable. Thanks, James On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 15:57 +0200, Jacob Kruger wrote:

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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