Question

I have everything working on my login except for the admin user.

When I try to navigate to my admin.php I get “Must be logged in” even if I am already logged in as an admin.

When I click the admin link, I first go to checkAdmin.php which is the code below.

<?php
if($_SESSION['userEmail'] != '[e-mail]') {
    echo "<center><font face='Verdana' size='2' color=red>Must be logged in</font> <br><a href=index.php>Login Here</a></center>";
    exit;
}
?>

Am I doing something wrong on this?
Thanks.

I have session_start(); at the top of my admin.php page.
I used print_r($_SESSION); and got this line, so it has the right value.

Array ( [userEmail] => [e-mail] ) 

Also, if I add session_start(); to the checkAdmin.php then the screen just sits at checkAdmin, when I click to go to the admin page.

The admin.php has this at the top

session_start();
require "checkAdmin.php";
include("db_info.php");

Answer 1

Make sure you have called session_start() before checking session variables.