[RESOLVED] Session variables

[Ecniv]

Hi,


Treading quietly into the world of Php/MySql I am experimenting...

Now if you picture a mad scientist type, you'd have the white lab coat with some weird colours in place and perhaps a singe mark near the bottom, goggles on (bit of sellotape holding the strap). and the scientist is pouring two flasks of liquid together. Now the scientist is expecting a colour change, however the liquid is clear.

The problem:
On the index page I am getting a check of session variables. Just looping through all of them.
Then on a login php processing page it fills session variables.
However, when going back to the index page only one variable is there (UserID) which is weird. Should be 5 at least. So I check the processing page, 5 listed.
Back to the main page. 1 again ...
So I put in a clear session vars loop in the php, and run it.
Now no vars available.
The index page still has one var - UserID.

What is going on?

[john tindell]

When you say 5 listed, do you mean 5 UserID's? Can you post some code so we can see whats happening exactly

[penagate]

Have you initialised the session correctly on the index pages?

[Ecniv]

john - 5 variables held on the session object

penagate - Uh apparently not.


After a little head bashing and a minor headache. Some delving on php.net and in a wrox book, I needed to put session_start() at the beginning of every page that needed to use the session variables.

So thats better and appears to (almost) work the way I want.

I'm doing the simplistic log on screen. Anyway. Thanks for the pointers.