$_SESSION data being lost when the page refreshes

[Hydrargyrum]

Long story short, upon logging in, the following code is executed:
$_SESSION['LoggedIn'] = 1;

When I run this on my personal server, it works perfectly. The rest of the code sees that $_SESSION['LoggedIn'] is 1; and forwards the user to a nice little member area where they can make changes to their account and whatnot.

Unfortunately, the session seems to be clearing itself when I try to run this code on x10hosting. I Googled this problem and most people recommend changing something in the php.ini file, but I obviously can't do that, so what how do I work around it?

[morshed]

Long story short, upon logging in, the following code is executed:
$_SESSION['LoggedIn'] = 1;

When I run this on my personal server, it works perfectly. The rest of the code sees that $_SESSION['LoggedIn'] is 1; and forwards the user to a nice little member area where they can make changes to their account and whatnot.

Unfortunately, the session seems to be clearing itself when I try to run this code on x10hosting. I Googled this problem and most people recommend changing something in the php.ini file, but I obviously can't do that, so what how do I work around it?

Did you start a session in the first place?? You need to execute session_start() first!

[ichwar]

Did you start a session in the first place?? You need to execute session_start() first!

yes, a lot of people make that mistake. That drove me nuts at first actually, I couldn't figure out why my sessions weren't working.:laugh:

[garrettroyce]

To add a little more information, there is a PHP directive set in the php config file to autostart sessions. It sounds like your other server does autostart sessions, but x10 does not.

[ichwar]

To add a little more information, there is a PHP directive set in the php config file to autostart sessions. It sounds like your other server does autostart sessions, but x10 does not.

correct, I was not using x10.
Edit:
anyways, does php throw an error if the session is called when not yet started?

[garrettroyce]

You can check if the session is started already and if it is not, start one, like this:

if (empty(session_id())) {
     if (!session_start()) {
          exit('Session could not be started');
     }
}

[Hydrargyrum]

As it turns out, I did forget to start the session. My server automatically starts sessions and x10hosting does not.

[larosti]

Ok, so I'm having a very similar problem...
I have my web, open it up on localhost (my laptop), under Firefox AND IE8, and have everything running perfect with the login scripts.
Now, I uploaded it to my x10hosting, running under FF, everything's cool, but under IE, the session does not seem to prevail.
I've googled my butt off, yet the solution does not pop-up, but I found out what the problem seems to be.
Apparently, in IE, everytime a session_start() is sent, a new session is created, regardless that one was already active or not. As a consequence, the session I "log to" with $_SESSION['username'] and $_SESSION['password'], does not prevail.

I hope I explained myself correctly, so someone can help me out, 'cause I'm kinda going nuts about this.
Thanks in advance.

[descalzo]

1. session_start() at the beginning of the script, before anything is sent to the browser, even a blank line.
2. Make sure your IE is accepting cookies from x10.