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Answer 1

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Are you trying to output stuff to the page before you send the headers? What happens if you put the stylesheet after you call session_start()?

easement 2010-01-15 18:05:23

for form.php the stylesheet is after the session_start

Anders Kitson 2010-01-15 18:48:06

Answer 2

+1 A:

To work like you want it, you need to have started the session first. Sounds simple, because it is. When you say session_start, php then looks for an accepted session cookie first to process content.

From http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php

Note: To use cookie-based sessions, session_start() must be called before outputing anything to the browser.

Liam 2010-01-15 18:10:12

I posted my code above, session_start for form.php is first.

Anders Kitson 2010-01-15 18:48:53

but not in session2

Liam 2010-01-15 19:10:33

Answer 3

+1 A:

Your second page needs to look like this:

<?php
    session_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
<html>
    <head>
       <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <?php
        $username = $_SESSION['name'];
        echo $username;
    ?>
    </body>
</html>

Note that session_start() must appear before any content is printed to the screen.

Per the note on the session_start PHP manual page:

Note: To use cookie-based sessions, session_start() must be called before outputing anything to the browser.

Mark E 2010-01-15 18:47:06

ok I will do this, will this relate to why I cant have the blank href in form.php the first one.

Anders Kitson 2010-01-15 18:56:25

it's unclear if `<link rel="stylesheet" href="#">` is valid syntax even for HTML, but you're telling the browser it's XHTML, and not closing the tag, which could be causing issues. Try `<link rel="stylesheet" href="#" />` instead (note that slash)

Mark E 2010-01-15 18:59:14

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