Session dropping out

[bird_man11]

Just wondering if anyone could help me out.

i have a link which when clicked on should send you to a page and start a new session and log you in, problem is that if the link is external from the browser (eg. from word) it seems to start the session but the session variables are all empty, but if the link is copy and pasted into the browser, or clicked from a page in the browser it worked fine.

 

thanks in advance

[Brian W]

Some code for the page that makes the session would probably help us help u.

[bird_man11]

sorry that might help heres the code

 

<?
session_start();
include 'includes/connect.php';
include 'classes/userclass.php';

if(($_POST['username'] != '') || ($_GET['hashedkey'] != '')){
$_SESSION['loggedUser'] = new user();
        if($_SESSION['loggedUser']->login($_GET['hashedkey'], $_POST['username'], $_POST['password'])){
               header('Location:divisions.php');
        } else {
               header('Location:index.php');
        }
}
?>

 

$_SESSION['loggedUser']->login sets $_SESSION['loggedUser']->sessionActive = true if there is a match in the database

[Brian W]

I'm thinking that your email client (Outlook or yahoo.com or whatever) is messing up your link and not passing ?hashedkey=exampleblablablabla which you use as $_GET['hashedkey']. Check that when you click the link in your email that the url looks how you expect it.

[bird_man11]

yeh i have checked that, its actually in a excel spreadsheet, and i have copied and pasted the links from the spreadsheet into the browser and that seems to work

[Brian W]

but does the url look correct when you click on the link from the excel spread sheet?

[bird_man11]

yeah, if i stop the redirect it is the same in the address bar

[PFMaBiSmAd]

It's likely that the hostname/subdomain www. is being used for some of the URL's and not others and the session cookie settings are not setup to work with and without the www.