Posted by Erwin Moller on 06/19/06 11:55

stathisgotsis@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I am having a brain fart or something, why won't this work?
>
> test.php:
>
> <?php
> session_start();
> $_SESSION['username']='test';
> header("Location: test2.php");
> exit();
> ?>
>
> and test2.php:
>
> <?php
> session_start();
> echo $_SESSION['username'];
> ?>
>
> Any hint appreciated.

Hi,

Looks fine to me.
Is it possible PHP cannot use sessions at all because of a misconfigured
php.ini?
Can PHP read/write to the directory where sessions are stored (often /tmp)?
Did you accidentally set the session_safe_handler to user?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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