Well, I know the code to set the session is working because if it's not I am
redirected from my secure url
Anyway, for what it's worth here's the code
User logs in by posting credentials to login.php which checks the database
to make sure he's registered and then if he is executes the following code
to set the session
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private");
$_SESSION["auth"] = trim($_POST["username"]);
logged in user is then redirected to a protected page
the protection code resides in an include and says
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private");
if (!isset($_SESSION["auth"]))
{
header("Location: ".$myWwwPath."login.php");
}
This works fine - if the user tries to access the page without logging in
they are successfully redirected
On all pages on the site I want to have an include file
which when a user is logged in displays a table with their login info - i.e.
$_SESSION['auth'] so I made and included the file
<?php include("config.php");?>
<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION["auth"]))
{
?>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<img src="<?php echo $myWwwPath; ?>resources/images/key_icon.gif"
align="absmiddle"/>
<span>Logged In As:</span><br/>
<span><?php echo $_SESSION["auth"];?></span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php }
else{
}
Incidentally, config.php doesn't make any output to the browser or contain
any blank lines.
echoing $_SESSION['auth'] in the include produces nothing!
I'm a php newbie as ASP and ASP.NET is my normal environment. Could it be
something to do with scope as the include is included in another include?
Joe
"Gert" <gert@mellak.com> wrote in message
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>> Anyone got any ideas why I wouldn't be able to output a value stored in[/color]
> the[color=green]
>> session array in a particular include file - I am using session_start()[/color]
> but[color=green]
>> to no avail.[/color]
>
> please post some code to make it easier to help you!
>
> Gert.
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