Re: Ok, next step/question

"Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:05:26 +0200

Ok.

Been trying out various things including double-checking if my error display 
settings were there etc. etc., and finally sort of figured out what was 
going wrong when I eventually saved the output of main.php from internet 
explorer after it was still not showing any output, and then I sort of 
discovered that for whatever reason, the PHP code isn't actually being 
interpreted/processed since it still shows up in the html source thereof.

FWIW, here's the complete source code of that main.php file (as it appears 
when I edit it, or when I save it from IE):

<?php session_start(); ?>
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 //EN">
<html>
<head>
      <title>Admin main page</title>
</head>
<body>
<? php
echo "admin?: " . $_SESSION["admin"] . "<br />";
echo "What the hell!?!?!?";
?>
</body>
</html>

Anyideas (and FWIW, I have tried changing various small things, but who 
knows...)?

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Crow" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:25 PM
Subject: Re:  Ok, next step/question

That is correct. The session_start() command must appear in each script
that needs to access the $_SESSION variable.

Thanks,
James

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 15:57 +0200, Jacob Kruger wrote:
Ok.  Just realised that you might have meant that I need that
session_start(); statement on the first line of every page?

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:52 PM
Subject: Re:  Ok, next step/question

> Already got that one on the very first line of the initial (index.php)
> page,
> and I am assigning an array element in that first page, which seems to
> work
> fine.
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Crow" <
> james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Jacob Kruger" <
> jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <
> php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:42 PM
> Subject: Re:  Ok, next step/question
>
>> Jacob,
>>
>>  You must issue a session_start() prior to outputting any code to the
>> browser for sessions to work. There are tons of different ways to
>> configure things, but session_start() as the first thing in the script
>> should get you started. Here is a basic example:
>>
>> index.php:
>> <?php
>> session_start();
>> $_SESSION['test_me'] = 'My test $_SESSION variable'; // stores a value
>> in the $_SESSION array
>> ?>
>> <html><head>
>> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=page2.php">
>> </head></html>
>> ################## End of index.php ##################
>>
>>
>> page2.php:
>> <?php
>> session_start()
>> ?>
>> <html><head><title>Page 2</title></head><body>
>> <?php
>> echo $_SESSION['test_me'];
>> ?>
>> </body></html>
>> ################# End of page2.php #######################
>>
>> The index.php page simply stores a value in the $_SESSION super global
>> array and then immediately redirects to page2.php. page2.php retrieves
>> the value stored by index.php and displays it as the content of the 
>> web
>> page.
>>
>> This code is all from memory so it might have a bug, but it is how I 
>> got
>> started working with session support in PHP.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:26 +0200, Jacob Kruger wrote:
>>> Now got that main page redirecting/spitting out the relevant JS code 
>>> to
>>> get
>>> it to move on to the next page, but there I was trying to ascertain 
>>> if
>>> the
>>> session variable/array element had actually been set, and, for 
>>> whatever
>>> reason, no PHP code seems to be executing in main.php.
>>>
>>> Below is what I currently have inbetween the <body></body> tags:
>>>
>>> <? php
>>> echo "testing...";
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> Before I was trying to do something along the lines of:
>>> echo $_SESSION["admin"];
>>>
>>> And that also did nothing.
>>>
>>> I also tried changing the static HTML content to see if maybe the 
>>> output
>>> was
>>> just being cached or something, but that renders correctly.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? (am I just not 'trying' correctly or something)
>>>
>>> Stay well
>>>
>>> Jacob Kruger
>>> Blind Biker
>>> Skype: BlindZA
>>> '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>>>
>>
>>
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