From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: windows 2000 professional PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: Session variables are lost when redirecting to a url using header() function.
I have 2 scripts: a script to login a user and set a session variable. After checking session_is_registered() I redirect to a url using header(). The target script checks for the session variable and is not able to find it. If I use href to go to the target page, the session variable is found. I have reviewed the bugs database, and the solutions reported for similar cases do not work for me. The following are portion of the code used: I tested the code on a Linux server and it works perfectly. Thank you. Kannan Environment: Windows 2000, IE 5.5, Linux 4.0.6 Login.php>> $db = db_connect(); $result = mysql_query($query, $db); if (mysql_num_rows($result) >0 ) { // if they are in the database register the user id $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $suser = $user; session_register("suser"); } } if (session_is_registered("suser")) { if ($redirect<>"") header("location: $redirect"); // redirect is instantiated with 'members_only.php' else { echo "You are logged in as: $suser <br>"; echo "suser: $suser<br>"; echo "<a href=\"members_only.php\">Members Only</a><br>"; echo "<a href=\"logout.php\">Log out</a><br>"; // ======= redirect to URL ==== } } ..... members_only.php>> <? session_start(); // check session variable echo "Members_only<br>"; echo "$suser<br>"; if (session_is_registered("suser")) { echo "Members Only Page<br>"; echo "<p>You are logged in as $suser.</p>"; echo "<p>Members only content goes here</p>"; echo "<a href=\"login.php\">Back to main page</a>"; echo "<a href=\"logout.php\">Logout</a>"; } else { $redirect = "members_only.php"; header("location: login.php?redirect=$redirect"); } ?> php.ini>> [Session] session.save_handler = files session.save_path = C:\temp session.use_cookies = 1 session.name = FOO session.auto_start = 1 session.cookie_lifetime = 60 session.cookie_path = c:\temp session.cookie_domain = session.serialize_handler = php session.gc_probability = 1 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 session.referer_check = session.entropy_length = 0 session.entropy_file = session.cache_limiter = private session.cache_expire = 180 session.use_trans_sid = 1 url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry" -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=14636&edit=1 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]