Users log into web site in a sudo phpbb login which works fine. Users are able to browse around phpbb and a sudo phpbb program called photopost. But when the goto a differen't part of the site which is not phpbb related, the sessionid does not carry over. The other pages are calling on the same isset variable??? This is blowing my mind for weeks now!!! Would some kind code help a frazzed brother out? Sincerely, Brad brads@xxxxxxxxx First is the login page define("IN_LOGIN", true); define('IN_PHPBB', true); $phpbb_root_path = './'; include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx); session_start(); //checking whether the user is logged in or nor and redirecting accordingly if(isset($_GET["forum"])) { if(!isset($_SESSION["userid"])) { header("location:index.php"); } } // // Set page ID for session management // Now the code from the page that it DOES NOT carry to and starts a new session: <?php ob_start(); session_start(); header("Cache-control: private"); require("includes/configure.php"); $conn=mysql_connect(DB_SERVER,DB_SERVER_USERNAME,DB_SERVER_PASSWORD); mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE) or die(mysql_error().": database not available"); $show="no"; if(isset($_SESSION['userid']) && $_SESSION['userid']!="") $show="yes"; $contestid=$_REQUEST[cid]; $contestid = $_GET[cid]; if ($contestid == 0){ $contestid = $_POST[cid]; } $contestid=$_REQUEST[cid]; ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- Begin function textCounter(field, countfield, maxlimit) { if (field.value.length > maxlimit) field.value = field.value.substring(0, maxlimit); else countfield.value = maxlimit - field.value.length; } // End --> </script> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>.: Color Me Gorgeous</title> <link href="colorme.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> a:link { color: blue; text-decoration: underline } a:active { color: red; text-decoration: none } a:visited { color: blue; text-decoration: underline } a:hover { color: blue; text-decoration: underline } </STYLE> <style type="text/css"> .msgtext { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color:#FF0000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; } .style1 {font-size: 12px} </style> <script type="text/JavaScript"> <!-- function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0 var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc; } function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array(); var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++) if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}} } function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01 var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) { d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);} if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n]; for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x; } function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0 var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3) if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];} } function checkSession() { if(document.form1.txt_comment.value=="") { alert("Please enter Comment"); document.form1.txt_comment.focus(); return false; } <?php if(!isset($_SESSION['userid']) && $_SESSION['userid'] == "") { ?> alert("You must first login to Post Comment"); return false; <?php } else { ?> document.form1.action="operation.php?mode=checksession&pid="+document.form1. pid.value+""; document.form1.submit(); return true; <?php } ?> } function logincheck() { if(document.frm.txtusername.value=="") { alert("Please Enter Username."); document.frm.txtusername.focus(); return false; } if(document.frm.txtpwd.value=="") { alert("Please Enter Password."); document.frm.txtpwd.focus(); return false; } document.frm.login.value="Success"; document.frm.action="operation.php?mode=login"; document.frm.submit(); return true; } function showlogin() { document.getElementById("tbllogin").style.visibility="visible"; document.frm.txtusername.focus(); } //--> </script> </head> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('images/home_b_h.jpg','images/about_b_h.jpg','image s/forum_b_h.jpg','images/photo_gallery_b_h.jpg','images/protfolio_b_h.jpg',' images/crictic_b_h.jpg','images/contest_b_h.jpg','images/contact_b_nhjpg','i mages/contact_b_h.jpg')"> <table width="779" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <?php include_once("header1.php") ?> <tr> <td><img src="images/header_bottom.jpg" width="779" height="8" alt="" /></td> </tr> </table> <table width="779" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="centerbg"> <tr> <td width="558" align="left" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="68" align="left" valign="bottom" ><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><img src="images/inner_top.jpg" width="559" height="68" /></td> <td><img src="images/right_img.jpg" width="221" height="68" /></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="15" align="center" valign="middle"> <div align="center" class="style1"></div> <table width="558" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><strong> Contest Entries </strong><br /> <? if(isset($_POST['Submit'])) { ?> <div align="center"><strong>Entry submitted!</strong></div> <? } ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"><table width="760" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="760" align="center"><table width="760" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <?php if($_POST['hiddensubmit']){ if (!$_POST['story']){ echo "<font color=\"red\">please feel out the form before hitting submit</a><br>"; } else { //Varify that only one entry per user per contest $get_count5 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `contest_stories` WHERE contest_id = '".$_POST['cid']."' AND year='2007' AND username ='".$_SESSION["userid"]."'"); $startcount5 = mysql_num_rows($get_count5); if($startcount5 < 3){ $query2 = mysql_query("INSERT INTO contest_stories SET contest_id='".$_POST['cid']."', year='2007' ,story='".$_POST['story']."', time='" . time() . "', username='".$_SESSION["userid"]."', approved='1'"); $contestid = $_POST['cid']; }else{ echo "<font color=\"red\">You can only submit 3 stories per contest.</a><br>"; } } } /* $vara=$_REQUEST['increment']; if($vara!="") {$increment=10*$vara-10;} else {$increment=0;} $cer=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM contest_stories WHERE approved = 1 AND year='2007' AND contest_id = '".$contestid."' ORDER BY time DESC "); $linii=mysql_num_rows($cer); $rez=$linii/10; $linii=round($linii/10); if($rez>$linii) $linii+=1; $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM contest_stories WHERE approved = 1 AND year='2007' AND contest_id = '".$contestid."' ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT $increment , 10"); ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="760" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="20"> <?php while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)){ echo "<tr > <td style=\"border-style:solid;\" style=\"border-width:1px;\" style=\"border:#12B683;\"><div align=\"left\" style=\"vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Posted by ".$row['username']." "; echo "<br /><br /></div><div align=\"left\">".$row['story']."<br /><br /></div>"; } ?> </table></td> </tr> <tr><td> <strong>Page <? $page=$_REQUEST['page']; if($page=="") $page=1; echo $page; ?></strong></td> <td> <? for($i=1;$i<=$linii;$i++) { ?> <a href="contest_storiesm.php?cid=<? echo $contestid;?>&increment=<? echo $i;?>&page=<? echo $i;?>"><? echo $i; ?></a> <? } ?> </td> </tr> <?php */ if(!isset($_SESSION["userid"])) { ?> <tr> <td colspan="2"><div align="left"><br /><br /><strong> Login to submit your contest entry!</strong></div></td> </tr> <?php } else { ?> <tr> <td colspan="2"><div align="left"><br /><br /> <strong> Submit your entry into the contest. </strong></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="125"><div align="right"> </div></td> <td width="433"> <label> <div align="left"> </div> </label> </td> </tr> <form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="contest_storiesm.php?cid=<?php echo $contestid ?>"> <tr> <td height="62" colspan="2"> <div align="center"><span class="style1">( You may enter up to 1600 characters. )</span><br> <textarea name="story" maxlength="1600" style="width:500px;" rows="5" onKeyDown="textCounter(this.form.story,this.form.remLen,1600);" onKeyUp="textCounter(this.form.story,this.form.remLen,1600);"></textarea> <br> <input readonly type=text name=remLen size=4 maxlength=4 value="1600"> <span class="style1">characters left </span></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><label> <div align="right"><br /> <input type="hidden" name="hiddensubmit" value="3" /> <input type="hidden" name="cid" value="<?php echo $contestid ?>" /> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> </div> </label> </td> </tr></form> <?php } ?> </table></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><a title="Top" href="#"><img src="images/top_button.jpg" width="81" height="21" alt="" border="0" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" height="10"></td></tr> </table> <?php include_once("footer.php") ?> </body></html>