Creating a session and sending it thru

[jw18]

Hi there,

 

First I will say my experience in PHP is rather limited. Before posting on here I have searched a lot on Google to try and find the code. Nothing I have used seems to work... but I know what I want to do is simple.

 

Basically I have two pages on my website: Page1.php and Page 2.php

 

I do not want someone to be able to view Page2.php until they have viewed Page1.php. So I think I need to start a session on Page 1 which is checked on Page 2. This is the code I'm looking to find. If someone could help out or point me to something that would assist me, I'd greatly appreciate.

 

This is what I was working with:

 

Page 1:

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['name']="test";
?>

<a href="page2.php"> click here </a>

 

Page 2:

<?php
if ( !isset( $_SESSION['test'])) {
Header("Location: page1.php");
}
?>

Test Content 

 

Thank so much for any help at all!

 

[trq]

You need a call to session_start() in all pages that use $_SESSION.

[jw18]

Ok. I tried adding that to page2 (page 1 already had it)

 

So now it's:

 

"<?php

session_start()

if ( !isset( $_SESSION['test'])) {

Header("Location: page1.php");

}

?>"

 

But it still just sends it back to page1.php when I start from that page. So it's like on page1 it's not creating a session or it's not passing it thru.

[trq]

You haven't set $_SESSION['test'], you have set $_SESSION['name'].

[ZulfadlyAshBurn]

Page 1

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['name']="test";
?>

<a href="page2.php"> click here </a>

 

Page2

<?php
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['name'])) {
Header("Location: page1.php");
}
?>