Sessions

[ShaolinF]

Hi Guys,

 

I created some session variables and was planning on using them on another page. But they don't seem to be getting passed over. See code below:

 

page1.php - Session created and works fine

If(!isset($_SESSION['LOGGEDIN'])) // If user does not have a session
	{		
		//Add session
		$_SESSION['NAME'] = $_POST['name'];

	}

 

page2.php - output session, value is nothing.

session_start();

echo "name:" . $_SESSION['NAME'] . "<BR>";
die;

[PHP Monkeh]

do you have session_start() on page1.php aswell (sorry if that sounds like a stupid question but I have to make sure).

[ShaolinF]

yes.

[PHP Monkeh]

Is the if() statement actually working?  Put an echo in your page1.php if() and see if it appears on the page, because that's the only thing I can see which is wrong with it.  Unless your $_POST['name'] is empty.

[revraz]

I dont know why you are checking their session to set a session, why dont you just set them both when they log in.

 

Besides that, make sure session_start() is the first thing in both your pages and check your session save path to make sure it's correct.

[ShaolinF]

I found the problem, now I need to find another way around it.

 

<FORM>

<INPUT type="button" class="altButtonFormat" value="Start Over" onClick="location.href='index.htm?id=<?php include("rand.htm"); session_unset(); session_destroy(); ?>'">

</FORM>

 

The point of that was so when they click the link it would redirect the to the home page and destroy the session.  :-\ Do you guys have any other suggestions on how I could achieve this ?

[revraz]

If you want to maintain their username, just reset the session variable you want to reset instead of all of them and destroying it.

[phpSensei]

edit: already said...

[ShaolinF]

If you want to maintain their username, just reset the session variable you want to reset instead of all of them and destroying it.

Well there are about dozen other variables involved, I only included one for the sake of simplicity. It's a purchase system. The user has the choice of starting over which will reset all the variables.

[PHP Monkeh]

Find out which variables you want to reset and just unset() them individually:

 

<?php

unset($_SESSION['session']);

?>

[revraz]

Probably easier to use some type of numerical sequence instead then and just use a loop to reset just those.  Or write the username as a cookie instead.