[Mailman]

Hi all, hope someone can help!

First the environment: Running PHP on Windows 2000, for development.

Now the problems:

1) On my login script I'm trying to set a session variable using

<?php $_SESSION['logged'] = true; ?>

whenever I do this the variable still local only.

2) After setting the session variable I want to reload the page using

<?php header("Location: $URL); ?>

where url is a valid url. This give me a fatal error. That line is on top of any HTML and no output has been sent.

Is any body know why or what is wrong in both cases?

I assume it's an environment problem, but since I'm new to PHP I can't figure it out!

Thanks in advance.

[fyrestrtr]

You need to use session_start(); before setting any session variables.

What "fatal error"? Remember that the URL has to contain http:// and the domain name (ie, needs to be a fully qualified URL), not just "file.html".

[NeverMind]

Originally Posted by fyrestrtr

You need to use session_start(); before setting any session variables.

What "fatal error"? Remember that the URL has to contain http:// and the domain name (ie, needs to be a fully qualified URL), not just "file.html".

well, I am not sure about this http:// part because I use the file name only and it works fine here ....

[Mailman]

Wow thanks guys much appreciated. I duno what happen during the night with the header thing, my previous url was a valid full url, I just change it to this board url, to test and bang it works

As for the session I already use session_start() and it was not working. No wonder here are the lines I set/gather the value:

$_SESSION['logged'] = true;

if( $_SESSION['logged'] != true ){
code
}else{
code
}

I just notice that a boolean variable will return 1 or 0 so I should do this instead

if( $_SESSION['logged'] != 1 ){
code
}else{
code
}

thank you so much

[whiteraider]

Boolean could be better tested by
using === or !== as you'll find if you test strings or arrays that 0 and FALSE are different!

Also TRUE is any non-zero value, -1 is TRUE.

[Mailman]

Ok the problem persist with the session variable!

When I set the $_SESSION['logged']; variable from my index.php page, I'm still able to read it. When I go on a different page the variable is lost! is that the way session variable works in PHP?

I use session_start() on my index.php page, when I try to use it on different page it give me that error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';' in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\PHPProject\modules\logout.php on line 3

Where line 3 contain: session_start();

What I'm doing wrong?

[hyjacked]

Not sure if this applies at all but:

Note: As of PHP 4.3.3, calling session_start() while the session has already been started will result in an error of level E_NOTICE. Also, the second session start will simply be ignored.

Also check the lines above the one that is giving the error, maybe it is causing problems that only show up on that line.