ie6 and lower loads blank page after login

[thebigtuna]

My problem: I've got a script the logs the user, then redirects them a different page. Everything works fine in Firefox and ie7. But anything ie6 or lower, after they click login, it just loads a blank page. Upon refreshing, it loads the page just like its supposed to. I read a little bit about problems with sessions and ie6, but didn't find any real solutions. I know ie is worthless, but is there any real fix for this?

 

The login page:

<?php

session_start();

$errorMessage = '';
if (isset($_POST['txtUserId']) && isset($_POST['txtPassword'])) {
   
mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass") or die(mysql_error());
   mysql_select_db(db) or die(mysql_error());

   $userId = $_POST['txtUserId'];
   $password = $_POST['txtPassword'];

   // check if the user id and password combination exist in database
   $sql = "SELECT username
           FROM test
           WHERE username = '$userId'
                 AND password = '$password'";

   $result = mysql_query($sql)
             or die('Query failed. ' . mysql_error());

   if (mysql_num_rows($result) == 1) {
      // the user id and password match,
      // set the session
      $_SESSION['db_is_logged_in'] = true;
//stores the username
$_SESSION['userid'] = $_POST['txtUserId'];
header('Location: main.php');

      // after login we move to the main page
   
      exit;
   } else {
      $errorMessage = 'Sorry, wrong user id / password';
   }
  mysql_close(); 
  }
?>

 

 

The page login goes to after user logs in:

<?php

session_start();

// is user logged in or not??
if (!isset($_SESSION['db_is_logged_in'])
    || $_SESSION['db_is_logged_in'] !== true) {

    // not logged in, move to login page
    header('Location: login.php');
    exit;
}

      $userid = $_SESSION['userid'];

mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(db) or die(mysql_error());

$result = mysql_query("SELECT *
           FROM test
           WHERE username = '$userid'");


while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$yourArray[] = $row;
}

foreach($yourArray as $rowNum => $row) {

}

if ($_POST['logoutb'] == "Logout"){
header('Location: logout.php');
}

if ($_POST['updateb'] == "Update")
  {

      
        $email=$_POST['email'];
        $name=$_POST['name'];
        $zip=$_POST['zip'];
        $city=$_POST['city'];
        $state=$_POST['state'];
        $country=$_POST['country'];
        $adress=$_POST['adress'];
        $phone=$_POST['phone'];

        //update user information
        $query="UPDATE test 
        SET email='$email', name='$name', zip='$zip', city='$city', 
        state='$state', country='$country', adress='$adress', phone='$phone' 
        WHERE username='$userid'";
        mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
      header('Location: main.php'); //refresh page
}

mysql_close();

?>

 

[trq]

I dont see how this could be a php issue. PHP happens on the server, long before your browser recieves the output. Be aware though that it is recomended to use a full url with the Location header. Maybe this causes issues for IE?

[thebigtuna]

I changed the header location to have the full url, but no luck.

 

If its not a problem with php, and I cant use php to fix it, I don't know what to do. I'm going to keep looking for a way to fix it.

 

Oh how I wish everyone just used firefox and made my life easy.