Help With Sessions

[steviez]

Hi,

 

I am having some strange problems with sessions in my script.

 

When a user logs in my script sets the sessions as follows:

 

session_start();
$_SESSION['loggedin'] = 1;

 

And then on member only pages i use this code to check if they are logged in:

 

session_start();
if(!isset($_COOKIE['loggedin']) && $_COOKIE['loggedin'] == md5("TRUE"))
    {
    header("location: $secure_url/login.php");
    exit();
    }

 

But it always redirects the users to the login page, but if i echo the session i get the value.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

But

[clown[NOR]]

try maybe changing from

if(!isset($_COOKIE['loggedin']) && $_COOKIE['loggedin'] == md5("TRUE"))

 

to

 

if(!isset($_SESSION['loggedin']) && $_SESSION['loggedin'] == md5("TRUE"))

[steviez]

sorry, i already have done that... it was just an example from my code. Its strange why it wont work. Im using php 5

[clown[NOR]]

have you also troubleshooted the $_SESSIONs? just trying to echoing out the value of them and see if it's printing out the expected result?

[steviez]

link=topic=192273.msg863757#msg863757 date=1208036971]

have you also troubleshooted the $_SESSIONs? just trying to echoing out the value of them and see if it's printing out the expected result?

 

I have done that and i am getting the exact result that i want. Its only when i try to check if its set.

[ikmyer]

pretty sure you would have to use the $_SESSION['loggedin']

 

and maybe try...

 

<?php

session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION['loggedin']) && $_SESSION['loggedin'] == 1)
{
  // ok
}
else
{
  header("location: $secure_url/login.php");
  exit();
}

?>