Session problem

[rward]

Hi,

I am wondering if anybody can help here. basically what i want to do is at the start of my site check if the sessions are set and if not set them. My problem is that on calling the following snippet of code it processes the first time but does not actually assign the  var 'session_id' until after a refresh or hitting the home page link that first calls this function.

Which results further down the line as two entrys into my database first one blank and second one with the 'session_id' var correctly.

 

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

session_start();

$_SESSION['session_id'] = $PHPSESSID;

 

...save to database the variable session_id....

}

 

Regards

Rob

[suzzane2020]

place session_start at the very beginning of the script ..not in the condition

[rward]

Yes I had tried this first and after different tests the condition was posted as previous but its the same effect.

 

session_start();

 

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

$_SESSION['session_id'] = $PHPSESSID;

 

...save to database the variable session_id....

}

[scottybwoy]

Try $_SEESION['session_id'] = session_name();

[rward]

scottybwoy,

This helps in the way that only one entry is saved to the DB until reloading the browser but the session ID itself is still not saved to the database or the variable 'session_id'. Could you elaborate on your answer.

Cheers

Rob