need help understand sessions

jimdavidson · #1 25-Jul-2007, 08:54

I'm teaching myself php, and I'm stuck. I have a two part form, each part opn a seperate page. I want to send info from page one to page two. Thought ok, I use session variables. The problem is that they don't get sent to the second page. All works fine on my local testing server, but when I go live session varables don't show. HAs this something to do with header? Is there another way to get to the second page?

Any help would be welcomed>

Here's part of the code

After user submits first form I load if to session variables in step one

PHP Code:


<?php
  $_SESSION['number_divers'] = $number_drivers;  
  $_SESSION['number_vehicles'] = $number_vehicles;  
  $_SESSION['current_insurance'] = $current_insurance;  
  $_SESSION['current_company'] = $current_company;  
  $_SESSION['refferal'] = $refferal;  

  // go to step two
 header('Location: http://example.com/my_auto_quotes_2.php');
}
?>

Step Two

PHP Code:


<?php
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
  session_start();
}
echo $_SESSION['number_divers'];
echo  $_SESSION['number_divers'];  
echo  $_SESSION['number_vehicles'];  
echo  $_SESSION['current_insurance'];  
echo  $_SESSION['current_company'];  
echo  $_SESSION['refferal'];  
?>

I dont' see anything

admin · #2 25-Jul-2007, 09:12

Why can't you just process the input data from the first form, and add it as HIDDEN input data within the second form?

jimdavidson · #3 25-Jul-2007, 09:42

No.

I need to know what's in $_SESSION['number_divers'] in order to format the second form i.e. I only want detailed driver info depending on the number of drivers. So if there's two I have driver 1 input detail section and driver 2 input detail sections. If there would be three or four I'd add more.

This all works fine when I'm testing on my localhost, but when I upload and try "live" the session variables don't go over. The only difference in the code is this

When local I use this:
header('Location: http://localhost/my_auto_quotes_2.php');

When I'm live I use this:
header('Location: http://example.com/my_auto_quotes_2.php');

jimdavidson · #4 27-Jul-2007, 12:01

Problem solved. I stumbled accross this while pulling my hair out. Now I'm kicking myself.

For the header I had this...
header('Location: http://example.com/btracy_auto_quotes_2.php');

What I should have had was this...
header('Location: http://www.example.com/btracy_auto_quotes_2.php');

Three little w's made the difference, session variables now work.

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