Actually it does not make that much sense. I use includes, with PHP extension, and never had a problem. Take a look at how you communicate between modules, ergo if you have globals on or off, the scope of variables, etc. It seems as if "user_level" is not known within the module. Luis -----Original Message----- From: Armando [mailto:dijital@xxxxxxx] Sent: quinta-feira, 9 de Fevereiro de 2006 4:41 To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: SESSIONS and include() Read the user post (currently 2nd) from greatmagicalhat [at] gmail [dot] com at the link below. I've never tried including a php file myself so cannot verify their information, but it makes sense. When I use includes, I use a specific file extension and store the files in a protected directory (so they are not just able to be viewed by browsing directly to the file) and it works fine. If you do it with a different file extension, make sure you configure your web server to make PHP process pages with that extension. Cheers. http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php Armando Fredrik Tillman wrote: > Hi > > PROBLEM: > > I want to let certain users use certain funcions on my page. To manage > that I start a session and define $_SESSION[user_level] to a value from > a mySQL table. So far so good. Users with $_SESSION[user_level]=="1" can > access things on the .php page they are on. I made a simple if-statement > to handle that. > > Now the problem is that i want to use include("page.php") and let the > users with user_level=1 access special things on that included page. The > if statements that let them change things work if I access the page > directly from my browser but not when it is included in that main page. > > Whats am I missing? > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php