Thanks for your assistance... I found three small errors that caused me the problem.
1. I had an extra line or space in my include file that defines all my functions after the '?>' 2. I didn't realize that session_start returns an output. I assigned a variable to it. 3. I needed to passed the REQUEST_URI string in a hidden variable within my login form. Voila!!! Everything worked fine. I just wasn't seeing it yesterday. I was just too close to the code... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Dennis Moore'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 11:33 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Sessions and Query String Variable Handling > Not for server side. You can use a META REFRESH on the client side, but > I personally find that ugly. > > This is why I always write my functions so that they don't output > anything. They just assign the output to a variable and return it. That > way, I can call the function anywhere, save the result, and just echo > that variable where ever I need to. > > ---John Holmes... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dennis Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 5:24 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Sessions and Query String Variable Handling > > > > Thanks, > > > > Is there any way of doing this without using the header() to redirect? > I > > have some functions that get executed before the sessions stuff. I > am > > trying to avoid using output buffering or re-writing my code. > > > > /dkm > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'Dennis Moore'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 8:49 PM > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Sessions and Query String Variable Handling > > > > > > > $page = $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] . $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] . > > > $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]; > > > > > > That will recreate the URL that the user clicked on. Save that to a > > > variable before you check for a session. Once you start a session or > > > verify that one exists, use header() to send them back to that page. > > > > > > ---John Holmes. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Dennis Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 2:37 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [PHP] Sessions and Query String Variable Handling > > > > > > Env: Apache 1.3.x/php4.0.6/mysql3.23.x > > > > > > Scenario: I have built a system that uses PHP sessions for user > access. > > > Within the system I send user notifications via email. Within the > > > email are links to certain pages with variables. For example. > > > > > > http://mysite.com/view_page.htm?id=6 > > > > > > My system checks to see if the session is valid. Since the user is > > > coming from an email. There is no session. So the user is prompted > for > > > the user and password. They enter and click submit. The > authentication > > > passes the user to right page, but losses the variables in the query > > > string. Thus causing errors. > > > > > > Here is the authentication code... > > > #### set session settings from login form > > > if (!session_is_registered("valid_user") && $session_login=="proc") > { > > > if ($userid && $password) { > > > // if the user has just tried to log in > > > > > > $db_conn = mysql_connect("localhost"); > > > mysql_select_db("$dbname", $db_conn); > > > $query = "select * from auth_users " > > > ."where auth_username='$userid' " > > > ." and auth_password='$password' "; > > > $result = mysql_query($query, $db_conn); > > > if (mysql_num_rows($result) >0 ) { > > > // if they are in the database register the user id > > > $valid_user = $userid; > > > $valid_group=mysql_result($result,0,"auth_group"); > > > $valid_perms=mysql_result($result,0,"auth_perms"); > > > $valid_auth_id=mysql_result($result,0,"auth_id"); > > > session_register("valid_user"); > > > session_register("valid_group"); > > > session_register("valid_perms"); > > > session_register("valid_auth_id"); > > > } else { > > > $invalid_login= "Invalid login: Could not log you in... > > > <!--ERROR: $dbname <P> $query-->"; > > > } > > > } > > > } > > > > > > Any Ideas on how to pass the query string variables through the > > > authentication process? > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
