Accessing $_SESSION variables on html.

[m0v0nage]

My website is made up of html files. Recently I realized i needed php. I edited the .htaccess file so that it looks like this:

 

AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html

 

This allowed me to execute php on any html page. But one thing I am having trouble with is accessing Session information. I do this on an html page:

 

$name = $_SESSION['Name'];

 

with the session_start() at the top (I know I did that correctly). It can't seem to find the name. I do the same on a .php page, and it works. But why can't an html page access the Session variables? It can echo things and run other php functions, but why not the SESSION info.

[oni-kun]

Why not try a debugging test?

one.html:

<?php
   session_start();
   $_SESSION['Name'] = 'foo';
   header('Location: two.html');
?>

two.html

<?php
   session_start();
   echo '<pre>';
   print_r($_SESSION);
?>

 

Does it return anything? Does the PHP code turn up in the source?

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

For debugging purposes, add the following two lines of code immediately after your first opening <?php tag on the page -

 

ini_set("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);