re-setting session variables in PHP

[sumdumgaitu@hotmail.com]

I'm using the following code for a login page in PHP. Everything
works OK until someone else logs in from the same browser. As best I
can tell $mail, $password, and $user_id are not getting updated in the
session.

I tried doing

session_start() ;
session_destroy ();

$_SESSION['email'] = $email;
$_SESSION['password'] = $password;
$_SESSION['user_id'] = $user_id;

which seems to prevent email, password, and user_id from being set.

I'm using 4.1.2, no changes to php.ini (register_globa ls = On)

Any suggestions, help, or comments greatly appriciated.

Thanks!

Thomas


=============== =============== =============== =============

<?php

$email = addslashes($_PO ST['f-email']);
$password = addslashes($_PO ST['f-password']);

// connect to database

# query the database here - if $password and $mail match,
# return $user_id

if (!$user_id) {

// login failure

header('Locatio n: login_error.php ');

} else {

// login is good. start a session for this user

session_start() ;

$_SESSION['email'] = $email;
$_SESSION['password'] = $password;
$_SESSION['user_id'] = $user_id;

// and send them on their way

header('Locatio n: home.php');

}

?>

[Amir Khawaja]

Re: re-setting session variables in PHP

sumdumgaitu@hot mail.com wrote:
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> I'm using the following code for a login page in PHP. Everything
> works OK until someone else logs in from the same browser. As best I
> can tell $mail, $password, and $user_id are not getting updated in the
> session.
>
> I tried doing
>
> session_start() ;
> session_destroy ();
>
> $_SESSION['email'] = $email;
> $_SESSION['password'] = $password;
> $_SESSION['user_id'] = $user_id;
>
> which seems to prevent email, password, and user_id from being set.
>
> I'm using 4.1.2, no changes to php.ini (register_globa ls = On)
>
> Any suggestions, help, or comments greatly appriciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
>
>
> =============== =============== =============== =============
>
> <?php
>
> $email = addslashes($_PO ST['f-email']);
> $password = addslashes($_PO ST['f-password']);
>
> // connect to database
>
> # query the database here - if $password and $mail match,
> # return $user_id
>
> if (!$user_id) {
>
> // login failure
>
> header('Locatio n: login_error.php ');
>
> } else {
>
> // login is good. start a session for this user
>
> session_start() ;
>
> $_SESSION['email'] = $email;
> $_SESSION['password'] = $password;
> $_SESSION['user_id'] = $user_id;
>
> // and send them on their way
>
> header('Locatio n: home.php');
>
> }
>
> ?>
>[/color]

Thomas,

It seems to me like you are hitting the same bug I encountered a while
back on PHP 4.1.2. This is a documented bug and I would advise you to
upgrade your PHP4 version to the latest one. Here is a link to the bug
report:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16102

Amir.

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[RootShell]

Re: re-setting session variables in PHP


<sumdumgaitu@ho tmail.com> escreveu na mensagem
news:40d11bcc.2 347325@news.son ic.net...[color=blue]
> I'm using the following code for a login page in PHP. Everything
> works OK until someone else logs in from the same browser. As best I
> can tell $mail, $password, and $user_id are not getting updated in the
> session.
>
> I tried doing
>
> session_start() ;
> session_destroy ();[/color]

But you didnt do the two of them together right? You should *only* do the
"session_destro y();" when you want the user to log out and not before trying
to change "$_SESSION" fields.
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>
> $_SESSION['email'] = $email;
> $_SESSION['password'] = $password;
> $_SESSION['user_id'] = $user_id;
>[/color]