Session Weirdness

passes to one page but not another

[ukgimp]

I have a login page that creates a session with a couple of parameters taken form a database. On one page the variables can be extracted and printed. But on another page they wont print. I cant for the life of me find out why.

Here is how is create them on the login success page

$firstname = mysql_result($sql,$i,"firstname");
$user_id = mysql_result($sql,$i,"user_id");

$_SESSION['user_id'] = "$user_id";
$_SESSION['name'] = "$firstname";
$_SESSION['member'] = true;
header("Location: index.php");

On the index page they can be printed by using:

<?php
$user_id = $_SESSION[user_id];
$name = $_SESSION['name'];
print "Welcome $name , $user_id";

?>

But on the second page that is linked to from this one the same code does not work. Neither variables are present.

What in the name of craziness am I missing.

Cheers

[coopster]

session_start [php.net]?

[lorax]

That would be my guess. It should be the very first line in the file that you create the session vars and those that call them.

[Bigjohn]

Isnt there something you have to do with regards to making sessions work 100% in IE6 too?

John

[ergophobe]

For reasons I do not underestand, I have a similar problem on a login page with Firefox/bird and Netscape 7. It works in IE, Opera, Mozilla 1.4 and pretty much everything else.

In the two browsers mentioned, I have to clear the cookies and voila! I get the right session back. I can't figure it out and it perplexes me that Mozilla 1.4 works but not Firefox or Netscape 7.

Tom