Question

I have an index.php page that creates a new Login class (login class does all the handling of data,creating session, redirecting, etc)

index.php I create a new login class

  require_once('login.class.php');  
  $login = new Login;

Login constructor looks like this

public function __construct(){
    // Start session and open a database connection 
    session_start();
    $this->connectToDB();
}

if the user logs in successfully, I redirect him to securePage.php.

if I do the following on the securePage.php

$test = $_SESSION ['usrData'];
var_export($test->getFirstName());
var_export($test->getLastName());
var_export($test->isAuthorized());

it displays the following error

Fatal error: Call to a member function getFirstName() on a non-object
in /login/securePage.php on line
17

When, however, I put

$login = new Login;

in front of

var_export($test->getFirstName());
var_export($test->getLastName());
var_export($test->isAuthorized());

It works! I dont’ know what gives and if I am doing something wrong because even when I put

session_start();

instead of

$login = new Login;

but it still gives me the error

Fatal error: Call to a member function getFirstName() on a non-object
in /login/securePage.php on line
16

Answer 1

I think it has to do with the variable name. If I am not wrong, in your securePage.php, here is the code:

$login = $_SESSION ['usrData'];
var_export($login);
var_export($test->getFirstName());

It should be:

$login = $_SESSION ['usrData'];
var_export($login);
var_export($login->getFirstName());

Hope it helps.