What's wrong with this if statement? Simple test won't work..

[virtuexru]

I'm trying to create a rule, if a user is logged in, he see's this menu button. If he's not, he doesn't see it. I see it regardless or not if the user is logged in....

<?
  if (isset($_SESSION['image_is_logged_in']))
    {
      echo "<a href='main.php'>My Profile</a>";
    }
  else
    {
      echo "<a href='register.php'>Register</a>";
    }
?>

Should I be doing if($_SESSION['image_is_logged_in'] = true) {} else {} ?

[taith]

assuming that the session has started, that should take...

and with the
if($_SESSION['image_is_logged_in'] =="true"){ }else{ }
that really depends on what that var is usually set to...

[virtuexru]

            // set the session
            $_SESSION['image_is_logged_in'] = true;

And yea I did start the session

[taith]

then ya... no harm in trying...

[virtuexru]

Yea it worked, thank you taith. :)

[wildteen88]

When the user logs out what is the [b]$_SESSION['image_is_logged_in'][/b] variable set to.

ALso the following code does not check the value of the variable but the existance of it:
[code]if (isset($_SESSION['image_is_logged_in']))[/code]

You'll want to add an [b]and[/b] expression (&&) after the isset function to see if the variables value is true, like so:
[code=php:0]if (isset($_SESSION['image_is_logged_in']) && $_SESSION['image_is_logged_in'] == TRUE)[/code]