CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpsession
user1596616
user1596616

Reputation: 11

$_SESSION does not gets set on remote server

I am writing a log in page in php, and I am having trouble setting up $_SESSION. I am new to php and I don't know what I am doing wrong. The Script works fine on localhost, but when I push it to the remote server, it does not work. Could it be the php.ini file? Thanks for your help. 

         <?
         start_session();

            $dbc = mysqli_connect($host,$name,$dpassword,$database) or die('Error can not connect to corp database');
                $q="SELECT * FROM corporate WHERE (email='$theemail' AND password='$md5pass' AND activated = '1')";

                $result= mysqli_query($dbc,$q) or die("Error: ".mysqli_error($dbc));;

                if(@mysqli_num_rows($result) == 1)
                {
                    //get the entire row
                    $getrow = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
                    //also tired 
                    //$_SESSION = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC);

                    //set session, but does not get set!
                    $_SESSION['lname'] = $getrow['lname'];
                    $_SESSION['fname'] = $getrow['fname'];


                        //set cookie for an hour
                        setcookie("lname", $getrow['lname'], time()+60*60,"/","http://www.limozoor.com",1);
                        setcookie("fname",$getrow['fname'],time()+60*60,"/","http://www.limozoor.com",1);

                        //if no header is not sent, send it.
                        if(!headers_sent())
                        {
                            header('Location: http://www.limozoor.com/login/homepage.php'); 
                            exit();
                        }//inner

                }//outter
         }
        ?>

php.ini

          [Session]
          session.save_handler = files

          session.save_path = /tmp

          session.use_cookies = 1

          session.name = sid

          session.auto_start = 0

          session.cookie_lifetime = 0

          session.cookie_path = /

          session.cookie_domain =

          session.serialize_handler = php

          session.gc_divisor     = 100

          session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

          session.bug_compat_42 = 1
          session.bug_compat_warn = 1

          session.referer_check =

          session.entropy_length = 0

          session.entropy_file =

          session.cache_limiter = nocache

          session.cache_expire = 180

          session.use_trans_sid = 1

Upvotes: 0

Views: 292

Answers (4)

Arnaud
Arnaud

Reputation: 410

It may be just an oversight but the function in your code is incorrect: it is should not be start_session() but session_start().

http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php

Besides that, I don't see anything in your php.ini settings that may cause session not to work. You should put those lines in your php.ini error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT and display_errors = On. It will allow you to see as many error messages as possible.

Finally you can check apache error log to see if you can find any meaningful error messages. By default on Linux it will be in /var/log/apache2/error.log or /var/log/httpd/error.log

Upvotes: 1

웃웃웃웃웃
웃웃웃웃웃

Reputation: 11984

Try changing these code segments

 start_session();

into

session_start();

and

$_SESSION['lname'] = $getrow['lname'];
$_SESSION['fname'] = $getrow['fname'];

into 

if($getrow['lname']!='' && $getrow['fname']!=''){
   $_SESSION['lname'] = $getrow['lname'];
   $_SESSION['fname'] = $getrow['fname'];
   }

Upvotes: 1

PlantTheIdea
PlantTheIdea

Reputation: 16369

Could it be your session start?

you have start_session(), but i think it should be session_start()

Upvotes: 0

Devon Bernard
Devon Bernard

Reputation: 2300

Shouldn't you be using:

session_start();

not 

start_session();

if that function is not properly called your browser will not actually store any session data.

Reference for session_start()

Upvotes: 0

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