How to Manage Sessions with browsers

Question

i wrote this code but it is not working. simply check if some user is already login (with in a browser), if yes then don't show the login page - redirect user to dashboard.

<?php
session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION['usr']))
{
header('location:dashboard.php');   
}


error_reporting(0);

?>

Just as a little more info, what is `$_SESSION['usr']`? A `string`, `boolean`, `object`, etc. Also, it would probably be a good idea to put `exit;` after `header('location: dashboard.php');` so that the script terminates immediately after sending the redirect header provided you don't make any critical modifications to your session after the header is sent. — War10ck, May 07 '14 at 13:05
possible duplicate of [PHP Session Security](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/328/php-session-security) — Bud Damyanov, May 07 '14 at 13:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 07 '14 at 13:14

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<?php
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['usr']; //just to check
if(isset($_SESSION['usr']))
{
header('location:dashboard.php');   
}
else
{
header('location:login.php');   
}
?>

check correctly that $_SESSION['usr'] is right. Is it usr or username like that? The above code is correct. If it is still not working, it means that there was an error while setting that session ur. recheck the code, to after login form. Try echo $_SESSION['usr']. so that it will make things more clear

answered May 07 '14 at 13:14

Gijo Varghese

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no it is not working.again it is redirecting to login page. – Phani May 07 '14 at 13:26
@Phani what is displayed when echo $_SESSION['usr']; ?? – Gijo Varghese May 07 '14 at 13:41
it is showing Username which stored in session variable. – Phani May 12 '14 at 06:41
@Phani good. So now you can remove that echo. The above code should work – Gijo Varghese May 12 '14 at 11:14

How to Manage Sessions with browsers

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