SESSION on localhost VS webserver

[gevensen]

I seem to be seeing a problem I havent noticed before

when I use header for a redirect the session data passes to the new page

when I use href it seems as though even when I do a session_start() on the new page

the session data doesnt pass

 

Is this normal or is there a setup issue on my server (bluehost)

 

everything works fine on wamp but when i upload to implement it no good

 

I am using this to generate PDF reports using fpdf, I want it to open a new page instead of just redirecting

 

Is it that it is unable to pass the data to a new page on a server??

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Any chance you are switching back and forth between URL's that have and don't have the www. on them and/or the URL's have different paths to the files in question?

 

The session.cookie_domain and session.cookie_path settings affect if the session id cookie matches only the subdomain/hostname (www. or no www.) and path where it was set or matches all variations of the subdomain/hostname and path on your site.

 

What does a phpinfo(); statement show for the session.cookie_domain and session.cookie_path settings?

[gevensen]

I am calling a file in a different directory

 

for example

http://www.website/directory1/callingfile.php has a href in it that links to http://www.website/directory2/report.php