New to sessions

[corbin]

Recently I've started tryin to teach my self about sessions, but i cant figure out how to get sessions to span multiple pages... So far I've been messin around with a very very very simple login script...

login.php:
[code]<form method=POST action="login_action.php">
Name: <input type=text name="name"><BR>
Password: <input type="password" name="pass"><BR>
<input type="Submit" value="submit">
</form>[/code]

login_action.php:
[code]<?
include('db.php');
$name = $_POST['name'];
$pass = $_POST['pass'];
$q = "SELECT * from accounts WHERE ((name='$name') && (password='$pass'))";
$a = mysql_query($q);
$r = mysql_num_rows($a);
if($r > 0) {
session_start();
$SESSION['user'] = $name;
}
?>
<a href="test.php">test</a>[/code]

and last test.php:
[code]<?
session_start();
echo $SESSION['user'];
?>[/code]

so lets say i login with the name corbin, on login_action.php it can echo $SESSION['user'] fine, but on test.php it doesnt think SESSION['user'] is set... So pretty much im asking how do i get it to recognize a session from 1 page on another?

[avo]

HI

Take a look here i just posed this one for someone else

[url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,99222.0.html]http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,99222.0.html[/url]
cheers

[corbin]

Seems to me that that script doesnt even need to use sessions for what it does...

That script doesnt help me (i dont think  ???) it just forwards you to different pages based on access level... Im asking how do i get page2.php to echo the session data that was set using page1.php

[corbin]

Got it.  I was using $SESSION and not $_SESSION...