Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/31/06 12:22

Koncept wrote:
> In article <1162207549.606471.131080@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> <crescent_au@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've written a login/logout code. It does what it's supposed to do but
>>the problem is when I logout and press browser's back button (in
>>Firefox), I get to the last login page. In IE, when I press back
>>button, I get to the page that says "Page has Expired" but Firefox does
>>not do this.
>>
>>I think it's something to do with sessions not properly unset or
>>something like that but I haven't been able to figure it out. I am
>>attaching my codes and database structure below. If you need more info,
>>please email me. I really want this to be fixed asap. I've played with
>>this long enough. Thanks!
>>
>
>
> Just curious what happens if you add these headers to the previous
> pages?
>
> ( code from docs )
>
> <?php
> header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
> header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
> ?>
>
> And this for the destruction of the session:
>
> <?php
> $_SESSION = array();
>
> // Note: This will destroy the session, and not just the session data!
> if ( isset( $_COOKIE[session_name()] ) )
> setcookie( session_name(), '', time() - 42000, '/' );
>

This line will never do anything. The session_name is the value of the
cookie, not the name. The cookie name is set in the php.ini file
(default: PHPSESSID).

> // Finally, destroy the session.
> session_destroy();
> ?>
>


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