retrieving data from session id??

[crescent_au]

Hi all,

Please help me out here.

This is what I have done:

on Page A:
<a href="<?php echo 'pageB.php?item=docs&sSID='.session_id();
?>">Docs</a>

on PageB:
<?php
if ($sSID) {
echo $_SESSION['username']; // THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO READ HERE
switch($_REQUEST['item']) {
case "docs": echo "doc files"; break;
case "reqdocs": echo "other files"; break;
case "misc": echo "miscellaneous files"; break;
default: echo "Invalid query"; break;
}
}
?>

As you can see on PageB, I tried to read the value of
$_SESSION['username'] but it gives nothing. The session file is
correctly created in my /tmp folder with the username field containing
valid data.

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Ben

[m2m tech]

You have to tell PageB to do something with the session created by
PageA. For example:

session_id ($_GET['sSID'])

but be shure to clean sSID before you use it like this ...

cr*********@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi all,

Please help me out here.

This is what I have done:

on Page A:
<a href="<?php echo 'pageB.php?item=docs&sSID='.session_id();
?>">Docs</a>

on PageB:
<?php
if ($sSID) {
echo $_SESSION['username']; // THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO READ HERE
switch($_REQUEST['item']) {
case "docs": echo "doc files"; break;
case "reqdocs": echo "other files"; break;
case "misc": echo "miscellaneous files"; break;
default: echo "Invalid query"; break;
}
}
?>

As you can see on PageB, I tried to read the value of
$_SESSION['username'] but it gives nothing. The session file is
correctly created in my /tmp folder with the username field containing
valid data.

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Ben

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[Mumia W.]

On 08/15/2006 01:10 AM, cr*********@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi all,

Please help me out here.

This is what I have done:

on Page A:
<a href="<?php echo 'pageB.php?item=docs&sSID='.session_id();
?>">Docs</a>
[...]

The parameter "sSID" is not the default PHP session id
parameter name, which is PHPSESSID. You might have
'session.name' in your configuration to 'sSID'; I don't know.

Under certain circumstances, PHP automatically sets the
PHPSESSID parameter for you. Read the docs to see if you can
get that to work.

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[Shelly]

<cr*********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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Hi all,

Please help me out here.

This is what I have done:

on Page A:
<a href="<?php echo 'pageB.php?item=docs&sSID='.session_id();
?>">Docs</a>

on PageB:
<?php
if ($sSID) {
echo $_SESSION['username']; // THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO READ HERE
switch($_REQUEST['item']) {
case "docs": echo "doc files"; break;
case "reqdocs": echo "other files"; break;
case "misc": echo "miscellaneous files"; break;
default: echo "Invalid query"; break;
}
}
?>

As you can see on PageB, I tried to read the value of
$_SESSION['username'] but it gives nothing. The session file is
correctly created in my /tmp folder with the username field containing
valid data.

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Ben

Try adding to all pages at the top in the php area:

session_start();

Shelly

[Jahjah92]

hi,
before trying to retrieve values in $_SESSION , you have to call
session_start() , and php will fill the array of session.
A+

"m2m tech" <te**@m2m.ata écrit dans le message de news:
44***********************@newsreader01.highway.tel ekom.at...

You have to tell PageB to do something with the session created by PageA.
For example:

session_id ($_GET['sSID'])

but be shure to clean sSID before you use it like this ...

cr*********@yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi all,

Please help me out here.

This is what I have done:

on Page A:
<a href="<?php echo 'pageB.php?item=docs&sSID='.session_id();
?>">Docs</a>

on PageB:
<?php
if ($sSID) {
echo $_SESSION['username']; // THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO READ HERE
switch($_REQUEST['item']) {
case "docs": echo "doc files"; break;
case "reqdocs": echo "other files"; break;
case "misc": echo "miscellaneous files"; break;
default: echo "Invalid query"; break;
}
}
?>

As you can see on PageB, I tried to read the value of
$_SESSION['username'] but it gives nothing. The session file is
correctly created in my /tmp folder with the username field containing
valid data.

Am I missing something? Thanks
Ben

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[Rik]

cr*********@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi all,

Please help me out here.

This is what I have done:

on Page A:
<a href="<?php echo 'pageB.php?item=docs&sSID='.session_id();

>">Docs</a>

on PageB:
<?php
if ($sSID) {
echo $_SESSION['username']; // THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO READ HERE
switch($_REQUEST['item']) {
case "docs": echo "doc files"; break;
case "reqdocs": echo "other files"; break;
case "misc": echo "miscellaneous files"; break;
default: echo "Invalid query"; break;
}
}

>>

As you can see on PageB, I tried to read the value of
$_SESSION['username'] but it gives nothing. The session file is
correctly created in my /tmp folder with the username field containing
valid data.

Am I missing something?

1. session_name() on EVERY page.
2. session_start() on EVERY page.
3. Don't use $sSID, use $_GET['sSid'];

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

[Petr Vileta]

<cr*********@yahoo.compíse v diskusním príspevku
news:11**********************@75g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...

Hi all,

Please help me out here.

Am I missing something?

Yes ;-) You must start session on each page where you want set or get
session infos and close it.

on Page A:
<?php
session_start(); // THIS IS IMPORTANT
<a href="<?php echo 'pageB.php?item=docs&sSID='.session_id();
session_write_close(); // THIS IS IMPORTANT TOO
?>">Docs</a>

on PageB:
<?php
session_start(); // THIS IS IMPORTANT
if ($sSID) {
echo $_SESSION['username']; // THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO READ HERE
....
session_write_close(); // THIS IS IMPORTANT TOO
?>
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