Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/31/08 12:32

white lightning wrote:
> On Jan 31, 12:36 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>>> OK, what do you have in $_SESSION when it fails?
>>>> echo "<pre>\n";
>>>> print_r($_SESSION);
>>>> echo "</pre>\n";
>>> when it fails, i get an empty array: Array(). Obviously, it has logged
>>> out and has removed all the session values.
>> Not so obvious to me. All it shows is that you have an empty session
>> array. There could be plenty of reasons - bad session id, for instance.
>> Or the server not storing the session information properly, or any of
>> about 100 other reasons.
>>
>
> in my localhost, this is what i get once i log in:
>
> Array
> (
> [uid] => 1
> [username] => xxx
> [cookie] =>
> [logged] => 1
> )
>
> and once i log out, i get Array( ).
>
> In the failing server, I can log in once and after I click on the
> other page, I get Array ( ).
>
>
>> So, in yourlogincode, set another variable in the session which you
>> don't clear. is the $_SESSION array still empty?
>>
>
> I tried the above and didn't clear the array... yes the $_SESSION
> array is still empty on subsequent pages. perhaps it's something to do
> with the way my hosting server is handling the sessions... or could it
> be due to different versions of PHP?
>

Did you do as I said - put another value in the $_SESSION array during
login which is NOT cleared when you log out?

Also, did you enable the E_NOTICE errors display?

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