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Asked: 2026-06-05T09:15:36+00:00

I have my login.php set up so that whenever a login is successful, it

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I have my login.php set up so that whenever a login is successful, it automatically directs to profile.php. However, even if the login is successful, whenever I go to profile.php it still says “You must be logged in to access this page”. Why?

Here’s my login.php:

$email = $_POST['email-field'];
$password = $_POST['password-field'];

if ($email && $password)
{
    $connect = mysql_connect("xx", "xx", "xx") or die("Couldnt connect!");
    mysql_select_db(xx) or die("Couldnt find db");

    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '$email'");

    $numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);

    if ($numrows != 0)
    {

        while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
        {
            $email = $row['email'];
            $md5password = $row['password'];
        }

        if ($email == $email && $md5password == md5($password))
        {
            header("Location: profile.php");
            $_SESSION['email']==$email;
        }
        else
            echo "Incorrect password";
    }
    else
        die("That user doessnt exist!");
}
else
    die("Please enter a username and a password");

And my profile.php:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<?php 

include('get-info.php');

session_start();

if ($_SESSION['email'])
    echo "<a href=logout.php>Logout</a>";
else
    die("You must be logged in to access this page");


?>


<html>

    <head>

        <title>

            R-A | Profile

        </title>

        <link href='css.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />

    </head>

    <body class='body3' >

        <div class='logo-bar'>

            <div class='menu'>

                <img src='images/rateaway.png' class='logo-bar-img' />

                    <div class='menu-options'>

                        <a href='index.php' class='menu-links' >Home</a>

                        <a href='profile.php' class='menu-links' >Profile</a>

                        <a href='profile.php' class='menu-links' >Friends</a>

                    </div>

            </div>

        </div>

        <div class='profile-main-content' >

            <div class='profile-current-info'>

                <p class='profile-name'> <?php get_info('iran_mateu@yahoo.com', 'name'); ?> </p>

                <img src='<?php get_info('iran_mateu@yahoo.com', 'profilepic'); ?>' class='profile-pic'/>

                <p class='profile-dob' > Born: <?php get_info('iran_mateu@yahoo.com', 'dob'); ?> </p>

                <p class='profile-country' > Currently lives in: <?php get_info('iran_mateu@yahoo.com', 'country'); ?> </p>

                <p class='profile-gender' > Gender: <?php get_info('iran_mateu@yahoo.com', 'gender'); ?> </p>

            </div>

            <div class='profile-edit-info' >



            </div>

        </div>

    </body>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You are not writing to the session after a successful login. Consider this part:

    if ($email==$email&&$md5password==md5($password))
    {
        header("Location: profile.php");
        $_SESSION['email']==$email;
    }

    You should be using = instead of ==. Since you are not, you are not assigning $email to $_SESSION['email']. You’re not assigning anything, just doing a comparison (and discarding its return value). So it should be:

    $_SESSION['email'] = $email;

    Also, you should add session_start(); to the top of login.php, as minitech suggested on his answer.

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