Try phpinfo() and look whether session is enabled in ur server ...... Also never save password as such . Atleast use an md5 . Its never good , especially to see others passwords and it may also make security issues. Hari K T http://www.harikt.com/ http://ijust4u.blogspot.com/ --- On Thu, 23/4/09, ITP Vision Promotion <itpvision@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: ITP Vision Promotion <itpvision@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: cannot read a session in php To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, 23 April, 2009, 7:25 PM Hello I have built 21 web sites, when I changed hosting, the PHP log in failed, due to failure to read the php session to the log in pahe: @session_start( ); if(isset($_POST[ 'user']) && $_POST['user' ] != '' && isset($_POST[ 'pass']) && $_POST['pass' ] != '') { $pass = mysql_escape_ string(addslashe s($_POST[ 'pass'])) ; $user = mysql_escape_ string(addslashe s($_POST[ 'user'])) ; $query = "select * from table where name = '$user' AND pass = password('$pass' ) "; $query2 = mysql_query( $query); if(mysql_num_ rows($query2) < 1) { header("location: login.php" ); exit; } else { $_SESSION['user' ] = $user; $_SESSION['keylock' ] = "abcd"; header("location: privatepage. php"); } } else { header("location: $referer" ); exit; } I reach the private page, here the session cannot be read , and I am redirected to the forbidden page @session_start( ); if(isset($_SESSION[ 'keylock' ]) && $_SESSION['keylock' ] == "abcd") { $user = $_SESSION['user' ] ; $display = "<br><div align = 'center'> Welcome <b> $user </b> <a href = 'signout.php' > <b> » SIGN OUT </b> </a> </div> <br> "; require_once( 'header.php' ); echo $display; } else { header("location: forbiden. php"); exit; } The second case is true I tried to comment the redirection, and wrote a varaiable $d = $_SESSION['keylock' ] ; echo " session $d "; I only get an output session, the session cannot be read Now surf faster and smarter ! Check out the new Firefox 3 - Yahoo! Edition http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/firefox/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
