Hi,

I'm new to php development. I try to learn using session. I created sess1.php with the following code:

<?php
session_start();

// makes an array
$colors=array('red', 'yellow', 'blue');
// adds it to our session
$_SESSION['color']=$colors;
$_SESSION['size']='small';
$_SESSION['shape']='round';
print "Done";
?>

sess2.php with the following code:

<?php
// this starts the session
session_start();

// echo variable from the session, we set this on our other page
echo "Our color value is ".$_SESSION['color'];
echo "Our size value is ".$_SESSION['size'];
echo "Our shape value is ".$_SESSION['shape'];
?>

I access sess1.php and then sess2.php in the same browser. The browser displayed

Our color value is Our size value is Our shape value is

which indicated that all the value set in sess1.php couldn't be accessed in sess2.php.

Can anyone let me know what's wrong?

THANKS !!!

Hi -

You seem to be doing everything right.

Suggestions:
1. Please (re)read the PHP documentation:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php

2. Make sure cookies are enabled in your browser.
If you're not 100% sure your browser supports cookies, try using Firefox.

3. Check the result value ("true" or "false") from session_start()>

4. Print out your SID (see the above link for details).

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Hi,

Welcome to the wild world of programming...

Okay, session1 and session2, you got me confused here.
Lemme see if I get your drift...you have one PHP page (one.php, let's say) with a session started up and variables and all set. What is the connection between the second page? There seems to be none...

A session is "played out" in one browser and in a set of logially belonging pages...

In page one you'd have something like this

the next page in the same site can now open/read/access the valiable stored in the session - of that flow/site - as any other page is not part of that particular session, the variables in the session are not accessible.

If you need to shuttle data over, consider a database. Cookies are limited by the domain they belong to...

Hope this helped!

Thor

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Thing works fine now. It's the permission issue on the session folder. The start_session() failed to create session. Thanks paulsm4, Thor_2.0.

You're welcome, good luck with the project!

Sorry - could you tell me what permissions you had to set?

Thanks.