Issues with Session_start()

PreethEldhose · September 13th, 2004, 12:55 AM

Hi,
I'm facing the following difficulty. I tried the below code. Got to work the first time around. Ever since then I'm not able to get it work again. The $_SESSION['authuser'] or $_SESSION['username'] variable values in movie_site.php are blank, these variables are referenced from movie_1.php file. I have the session_start() in either of the files. I have also set the session.save_path & session.cookie_path appropriately in c:\winnt\php.ini file. And I can see the directory path in phpinfo() listings as well

Please advise.

phpinfo()
1) session.cookie_path c:\php\cookiefiles
2) session.save_path c:\php\sessiondata

Source code as below....

File one movie_1.php

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['username']="Joe12345";
$_SESSION['authuser']=1;
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Find my Favorite Movie!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
     $myfavmovie=urlencode("Life of Brian");
     //echo "<a href='http://localhost/Coding_ini_php/movie_site.php?favmovie=$myfavmovie'>";
     echo "<a href='http://localhost/Coding_ini_php/movie_site.php?favmovie=$myfavmovie&sid=".session_ id()."'>";
     echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";
     echo "</a>";
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

File two movie_site.php

<?php
session_start();
//check to see if user has logged in with a valid password
     if ($_SESSION['authuser']!=1) {
     echo "Sorry, but you don't have permission to view this page, you loser!";
     exit();
     }
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My Movie Site - <?php echo $_REQUEST['favmovie'] ?></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
     echo "Welcome to our site, ";
     echo $_SESSION['username'];
     echo "! <br>";
     echo "My favorite movie is ";
     echo $_REQUEST['favmovie'];
     echo "<br>";
     $movierate=5;
     echo "My movie rating for this movie is: ";
     echo $movierate;

?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Preeth Raj Eldhose

PreethEldhose · September 13th, 2004, 03:55 PM

Furthermore what I noticed was, the movie_site.php stopped getting the $_SESSION['username'] & $_SESSION['authuser'] values once I add setcookie('username', 'Joe', time()+60); line on to movie_1.php source code.

Summary: I believe once I use setcookie('username', 'Joe', time()+60); with in movie_1.php which was an addition I made to the code, the issue I face is movie_site.php's if statement becomes true. In the sense the $_SESSION['authuser'] & $_SESSION['username'] are not available in movie_site.php. Although I have used the syntax which is appropriate when register_globals=Off & phpinfo() points to the correct path of both session.save_path & session.cookie_path (both with write to privilleges I have the issue of if failing. Please advice.

movie_1.php source code again with the inclusion of setcookie()
<?php
setcookie('username', 'Joe', time()+60);session_start(); //New line added
$_SESSION['username']="Joe12345";
$_SESSION['authuser']=1;
?>

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Find my Favourite Movie!!! </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
    $myfavmovie=urlencode("Life is Brian");
    echo "<a href='http://localhost/codinginphp/Movie_site.php?favmovie=$myfavmovie'>";
    echo "Click on the link to see the information";
    echo "</a>";
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

movie_site.php source code

<?php
session_start();
    if($_SESSION['authuser']!=1) { //$_SESSION['authuser'] is blank hence the loop is executed. The value for $_SESSION['authuser'] is set on movie_1.php with register_globals=Off & the syntax used is appropriate. Once setcookie(...) is used as shown within movie_1.php, if statement becomes true.And then I can't get this to work or get the value for $_SESSION['authuser']. Please advise. echo "Sorry!!!";
         exit();
    }
?>

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> My Movie Site - <?php echo $_REQUEST['favmovie'] ?></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<?php
    echo "Welcome to our site, ";
    echo $_SESSION['username'];
    echo "! <br>";
    echo "My favourite movie is ";
    echo $_REQUEST['favmovie'];
    echo "<br>";
    $movierate=5;
    echo "My Movie rating for this movie is: ";
    echo $movierate;
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Preeth Raj Eldhose