id also suggest to revisit the entire login script that you have attached, its a bit overly complicated. Keep amount of if statements to the minimum and you will not get lost. Try to keep it simple. Session is not a problem for you, just make a very simple set of rules when user is logging in, logging out and how to check if he is logged in. i guess its worth having a look at some open source apps or frameworks and see how they do it, good luck art On 14 May 2010 18:24, Luiz Alberto <gomes.luiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Barry, > > Did you try to use setcookie with expiry date in the past? You could > use > setcookie before header function of the following manner. > > session_start(); > if (!(isset($_SESSION['username']) && $_SESSION['username'] != '')) { > setcookie("session","session id", 1); > header ("Location: login.html"); > } > > Best regards, > Luiz Alberto > > > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:47 +0100, Barry Zimmerman wrote: > > > I have a problem with my system, not sure how I can fix this one. A user > has > > a log in page and takes them to different pages, now each of these pages > has > > a check to make sure they are logged in with the following code: > > > > session_start(); > > if (!(isset($_SESSION['username']) && $_SESSION['username'] != '')) { > > header ("Location: login.html"); > > exit; > > } > > > > So if they are not logged in it redirects them to the log in page. No > > problems there. > > > > Now if a user is not logged in and comes back to that page, it starts the > > session so giving them a session id and redirects them back to thge login > > page. The problem I have is I do NOT want the session to start, I need > them > > to hit the log in page with no sessions there. I have tried all sorts but > > just cannot get this to work. > > > > I have tried adding this to the code. > > > > session_start(); > > if (!(isset($_SESSION['username']) && $_SESSION['username'] != '')) { > > *session_destroy();* > > header ("Location: login.html"); > > exit; > > } > > > > But that did not work? Please I am stuck for ideas? >