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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/27/33 11:38
lwoods wrote:
> Wow,
>
> Thanks, Jerry. Kinda' crude, no?
>
> Larry
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:Z4ydnfUhzcQz_1PeRVn-pw@comcast.com...
>
>>lwoods wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks, but I still can't get it to work. Check the following:
>>>
>>>Originating Page:
>>>
>>><?
>>>if($_POST['repost']=='y') {
>>>session_start();
>>>$_SESSION['xxx']='test';
>>>session_write_close();
>>>header('Location: http://www.mysite.com/test/testsess2.php');
>>>exit();
>>>}
>>>?>
>>><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>>>"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>>><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>>><head>
>>><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
>>>/>
>>><title>Untitled Document</title>
>>></head>
>>><body>
>>><form action=<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> method="post">
>>><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
>>><input type="hidden" name="repost" value="y" />
>>></form>
>>></body>
>>></html>
>>>
>>>Target Page - testsess2.php:
>>>
>>><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>>>"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>>><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>>><head>
>>><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
>>>/>
>>><title>Untitled Document</title>
>>></head>
>>>
>>><body>
>>><?
>>>echo "xxx=".$_SESSION['xxx'];
>>>?>
>>></body>
>>></html>
>>>
>>>Try these pages and see if they work for you....
>>>
>>>Larry Woods
>>>
>>>"d" <d@example.com> wrote in message
>>>news:T2rzf.3315$wl.1860@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>>
>>>
>>>>"lwoods" <larry@lwoods.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:RPqzf.8953$JT.6285@fed1read06...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I am trying to pass some info to another page on my site. I set
>>>>>"session_start()" in page 1, assign a session variable to a value, then
>>>>>execute a "header('Location: ....')." But on the target page I don't
>>>>>get any session variable values! BTW, I used a relative location in the
>>>>>Location header, not an absolute URL. The behavior looks like it
>>>>>started another session, but it should not have.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Before the header("location: "), call session_write_close().
>>>>
>>>>That gave me some serious headaches with mac-based browsers hanging.
>>>>Terrible stuff :)
>>>>
>>>>Oh, and you should always use absolute URLs with location. Relative ones
>>>>do work, but that's not guaranteed. You could make a function like this
>>>>to take care of that for you:
>>>>
>>>>function bounce($url) {
>>>> if (sustr($url, 0, 1)=="/") $url="http://".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$url;
>>>> session_write_close();
>>>> header("Location: ".$url);
>>>> exit();
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>or just use that one :-P
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>TIA,
>>>>>
>>>>>Larry Woods
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>Larry,
>>
>>You need to call session_start() at the beginning of EVERY page which
>>needs session support.
>>
>>--
>>==================
>>Remove the "x" from my email address
>>Jerry Stuckle
>>JDS Computer Training Corp.
>>jstucklex@attglobal.net
>>==================
>
>
>
Not really. You call session_start() on those pages which require
session support, and don't on those which don't need sessions. Saves a
little unnecessary processing time.
Maybe session_connect() might be a better name? :-)
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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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