[SOLVED] one session variable not being destroyed

[psychohagis]

I have a system which uses three session variables;  'rank', 'username' and 'userid'.

I was doing the following on 'sign-out' to get rid of these variables:

 

$_SESSION = array();
session_destroy();

 

Which seemed to work as when I checked against uderid:

 

if (!isset($_SESSION['userid']) or $_SESSION['userid'] =='')
{
exit('You are not signed in!');
}

 

It told me I wasnt signed in.  I then wanted to do the following:

 

<?php


if ($_SESSION['rank']=='webmaster' OR $_SESSION['rank']=='chairman' OR $_SESSION['rank']=='secretary' OR $_SESSION['rank']=='treasurer')
{
?>

<br />
<div class="shinydiv">
<div class="title"> Admin</div>
<p>
<?php echo $_SESSION['rank'] ?>
</p>
</div>

<?php

}

?>

 

And for some reason it still appeared If I signed out.

 

I tried dumping all the session variables and the rank variable was the only one that showed up.

 

What's going wrong?

[papaface]

Do you have session_start(); at the top of every page using sessions?

[psychohagis]

yes

[Greaser9780]

Try the following:

if ($_SESSION['rank']=='webmaster' | $_SESSION['rank']=='chairman' | $_SESSION['rank']=='secretary' | $_SESSION['rank']=='treasurer')
{

[JasonLewis]

maybe its something to do with when your setting them?

 

and Greaser8780 its || not |

[Greaser9780]

Huh I usually use one with no probs. Lucky so far I guess.

[psychohagis]

This how I set them:

 

session_start();
$_SESSION['userid'] = $userid;
$_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username'];
$_SESSION['rank'] = $rank;

[JasonLewis]

so when you echo out the data that your putting in your getting the correct values?

[papaface]

Do this:

session_start();
$_SESSION = array();
session_destroy();
unset($_SESSION['userid']);
unset($_SESSION['username']);
unset($_SESSION['rank']);

[psychohagis]

Thanks that last suggestion seemed to work