PHP Session not working

[jeremy5357]

I am having problems with PHP sessions. If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, it will be greatly appreciated.

I could not get PHP sessions to work so I made a very simple test at http://cookies.x10.mx/sesstest.php.

It creates a session and stores a session variable as $_SESSION['test']. It then redirects the user to http://cookies.x10.mx/sessreceive.php where it will try to read the stored session and display to user.

The code to the pages are listed below.

This is all the code of sesstest.php

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['test']="TEST SESSION TEXT";
header('location:sessreceive.php');
?>

This is all the code of sessreceive.php

<?php
echo $_SESSION['test'];
?>

The output is blank.

Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

 

[lemon-tree]

The issue is that you have failed to start the session in the second script named sessreceive.php. Quoted from php.net: "Also note that you must start your session using session_start() before use of $_SESSION becomes available.".

Therefore, try changing the contents of sessrecieve to the following:

session_start();
echo $_SESSION['test'];

 

[jeremy5357]

Thank you, that solves my problem. Thanks for your help :wink:.