Posted by jj on 09/26/73 11:34

Hi,

I have a script that starts a session and registers a session variable as
follows:

====================
[login.php]
====================
session_start();
$_SESSION["userclass"]="admins";
require('includes/application_top.php');
======================

in the second file i simply check if the variable has been set or not:

======================
[application_top.php]
====================
if(!isset($_SESSION["userclass"]))
{
header("Location:login.php");
exit;
}
======================


The problem is that no matter what my isset check always FAILS. Therefore
always redirecting to the login.php page...Why is this? I checked the value
of the "userclass" session variable and it has a value in it , but when i do
my isset check (or any other check for that value) it always returns false
therefore rendering the if statement which is not what i want.

The other thing is if i take the snippet of code from the application_top
file and put it together in just one file (in the login.php) it works
perfectly fine. so the fact that i split the code into 2 seprete files
seems to make the problem.. any advise appricated!

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