Question

So i’m basically messing around with my own cms type system at the moment and running into some problems with php sessions. Below is a rough explanation on what i have,

All the SQL is working fine as if i remove the sessions i get no login errors (unless i put in incorrect credentials),

$query = "SELECT * FROM `test` WHERE username='$user' AND password='$pass_md'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Error: " . mysql_error());
$rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
$data = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

if($rows == 1){
 $_SESSION['expire'] = time() + (10 * 60); 
 $_SESSION['id'] = $data['id'];
 header("Location: admin.php");
} 
else {
header("Location: ulogin.php?login=failed");
}

So in admin.php i have this,

<?php
session_start();
if(!(isset($_SESSION['id']))){
 header("Location: ulogin.php");
}
?>

My issue is it is logging me in and then passing me straight back to ulogin.php so i’m assuming i have an empty session however i am inserting the user id into the session.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, i’m probably missing something pretty obvious, i’m not the most advanced php developer so yeh, need some more eyes on it.

Thanks

Answer 1

Found the issue, because i was using 2 seperate login pages (One for the frontend and one for the backend) i was missing;

<?php
session_start();
?>

from one of my login pages, sorted now, thanks all for the comments that actually made me triple check that!