new need help displaying echo $SESSION['authuser']

skafreak121 · May 31st, 2005, 03:12 AM

im attemping to follow all of the examples in this book. my newest problem is in Chap.2 the section on passing through forms. the login page is working, the link, "<a href=âhttp://localhost/moviesite.php?favmovie=$myfavmovieâ>â, is sending me to moviesite.php, but this page isn't showing the username on the first line

Welcome to our site, !

is all it will display and ofcourse it should be

Welcome to our site, Joe!

just wondering if anyone knows what might cause this (sorry i havent included the original code that i typed up its on my home computor and im at work)

thanks

dbdave · May 31st, 2005, 02:06 PM

When you get home, can you post the code you have..

Also, check carefully your variable names as they are case sensitve...

Edit: can you also post back which page this is from?

skafreak121 · May 31st, 2005, 08:23 PM

this is moviesite.php and will be found on page 60-61 (i am using an older version of this book.)

<?php
session_start();
//check to see if user has loged on with valid password
    if ($_SESSION['authuser']==1) {
    die('Sorry, but you dont have permission to view this page!');
    }
?>
<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 rating for the movie is: ";
    echo $movierate;
?>
</body>
</html>

thanks again

dbdave · June 1st, 2005, 04:41 AM

Ok...

Alter this code:

<?php
session_start();
//check to see if user has loged on with valid password

to look like this, and post back with the extra output

<?php
session_start();
while(list($vt, $val) = each($_SESSION))
{
echo "$vt == > $val<br>";
}
echo "<br>";
//check to see if user has loged on with valid password

What this does is output the contents and keys of the $_SESSION superglobal so we can see what values are being passed to the script.

skafreak121 · June 1st, 2005, 04:45 AM

i will do that and get back to you

skafreak121 · June 1st, 2005, 10:02 AM

all it seemed to do was add a blank line or two before the main text

dbdave · June 1st, 2005, 03:03 PM

That would indicate that session info is not being passed at all.

Do you have any kind of cookie controls set on your browser? or any software that may be blocking them?

skafreak121 · June 1st, 2005, 05:49 PM

that a good question in the privacy tab under internet options i have it set to medium. im using the windows firewall (windows xp), what other software would block cookies?

dbdave · June 3rd, 2005, 12:34 PM

Zone alarmns pro does and I know that Norton Internet Suite has cookie control ...

One thing to try, try adding localhost and 127.0.0.1 to the sites list - set them to allow...

And then try running the script from http://127.0.0.1/moviesite.php?favmovie=$myfavmovie

skafreak121 · June 8th, 2005, 10:40 PM

dbdave i really wanted to thank you for you help i got it to work