Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/06/07 14:29

K. A. wrote:
> On May 5, 2:03 pm, "K. A." <ka5...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 5, 12:18 pm, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>> .oO(K. A.)
>>>> ==>>> The resulting pagehttp://vector/test/testvariables.phplooks
>>>> like:
>>>> session started
>>>> UserName: ( )
>>>> Password: ( )
>>>> Session variables have not been passed across!
>>>> PS. I'm using PHP version 4.3.10, with Apache 1.3.12 (I think!)
>>>> In the error log, it says:
>>>> Undefined index: userid in testvariables.php on line 5
>>>> Undefined index: password in testvariables.php on line 6
>>>> I'm quite new to PHP, please help!
>>> How's the session ID stored on the client, in a cookie or appended to
>>> the URLs? If it's not stored in a cookie, it will get lost in step 2
>>> when the script redirects.
>>> You could try this:
>>> if (...) {
>>> header('Location:http://example.com/test/testvariables.php?'.SID);
>>> exit;
>>> } else {
>>> ...
>>> }
>>> Micha
>> OK, I have appendid the session id and it showed in the next page's
>> URL, then what?
>> the variables are still lost!- Hide quoted text -
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>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Back again,
> I guess I know where the problem is. I found out that session
> variables are somewhat lost when I use the "header" function as in:
>
> header('Location: http://example.com/test/testvariables.php);
>
> User is correctly taken to the personalised page using the above line,
> but then the session variables get lost!
>
> My question now is: once I found out the userid and I know what page
> to take him to, what is the best way to re-direct him to that page
> without losing session variables?
>

Do you have session_start() at the beginning of the new page, also?

If you're set up to use cookies to store the session id, this should
have no effect on session variables.


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