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Vickie

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Using sessions & session variables in a PHP Login Script

Using sessions & session variables in a PHP Login Script
Rasi

Rasi
answered Oct 8 '21 00:00

1. put the session_start() function at starting of every page where you gonna use sessions.
before session_start() , no output should be sent otherwise it will generate PHP Warning : Cannot modify header - headers already sent

session_start() 


2. after login verification, like email and password checking, if all ok then set session like below:


$_SESSION['userid'] = $row['user_id'];
$_SESSION['email'] = $row['user_email'];
   ....

this code will set the userid and email to session


3. now every session secure page, you need to check the session variable

if(!isset($_SESSION['userid'])){
//send back to login 
header("location:login.php");
}
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