PHP Session Issues

[AJLX]

Hey guys, I'm opening up a new tab, that includes a project_id code. I am opening with a link like this:

window.open(\'project_details.php?Project_id='.$row['Project_id'].'\', \'newwindow\', \'width=1000, height=800\')

This works fine. In the project_details.php page I have the following bit of code to try and convert the project _id into a session variable. (I open with the Start_sesssion() as normal).

$get_id = $_GET['Project_id'];

if (isset($get_id)) 
{
$_SESSION['PROJECT'] = $get_id;
}

The idea is that I can use this project_id to show the correct project when I navigate to other pages. The problem is, that the only way to get the sesion to start is to refresh the page, before I navigate away. Can anyone think why this is happening, and how I can get around it? the very lazy way is simply to force a refresh, but it seems a very messy way to get around this!

 

Thanks!

 

[ginerjm]

I start every script with "session_start();'  If you do that how do you have a problem setting a session var?

[AJLX]

Hello,

 

When I first load the page, for some reason the Session data is never stored. It's only when I manually refresh the page that it gets stored and that the rest of the pages then work as expected...

[ginerjm]

Add an echo statement to ensure that the code you think is working truly is.