[SOLVED] quick session question...

[ag3nt42]

hello again all,

 

quick question about sessions.

 

I've created a session and I "gather" that in order to use the session across multiple pages,

I need to place "session_start()" at the head of every page..

 

Which I had this working before but now i'm getting this error:

Notice: A session had already been started - ignoring session_start() in mypath\admin.php on line 2

[revraz]

What are the first 3 lines of code on the page?

 

Is this a include or a stand alone page?

[ag3nt42]

this is an include, but I want to restrict access on it incase someone decides to get creative

 

<?php
session_start();

[revraz]

Remove it from the include and make session_start(); the first line of code after <?php instead.  It sounds like Headers are getting set in your main page before the include gets called.

[ag3nt42]

yea I'm starting the session on the first line of index.php

 

then about 15 lines down from that i'm "requiring" admin.php

based on wether or not you've passed some checks for admin permissions.

 

I thought that if I didn't have session_start on the included page it wouldn't carry over the session data but it is .. so i don't need the second sessions start on the include page..

 

to get around the checks I did a reference back to the permissions variable..

I was scared it would not pass the check and still out put the rest of the html on the page...

but it stops the whole page soo.. the permission variable checks seems to be enough.

 

thankx for the help revraz