session data not displaying on logging in once but its displaying once logging out and logging in again

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session data not displaying on logging in for the 1st time but its displaying once logging out and logging in again.

Anything can i do to display session data on example.com/page2.php on logging in for the first time ?

example.com/page1.php

PHP

<?php
session_start();                    
                    $_SESSION['id'] = 1;
                    $_SESSION['name'] = 'dummy name';
                    $_SESSION['email'] = 'dummy@dummymail.com';
                    session_write_close();
header("Location: http://example.com/page2.php");
?>

example.com/page2.php

PHP

<?php

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == 'http://example.com/page1.php' )

{   

   ob_start();
   session_start();
   echo $_SESSION['id'];
   echo $_SESSION['name'];
   echo $_SESSION['email'];
}
?>

<a href = 'example.com/logout.php'>Logout</a>

example.com/logout.php

PHP

<?php
session_destroy();
header("Location: http://example.com/page1.php");
?>

Posted 13-Feb-14 23:50pm

Allwin456

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EZW · Answer 1 · 2014-02-15T20:40:00

On your second page put the following code BEFORE you do that IF statement check.

PHP

echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

The value of that is what you want to check the HTTP_REFERER for. In my test the value for that was ALWAYS page2.php

First time you login the HTTP_REFERER is not set... it is set the second time (to the correct value) which then shows your SESSION variables.