why the session variable is empty?

Question

I have been working is a website I have been dealing with a problem from a while, and now I know why it is happening, but not how to solve it. Please help!!

Step 1 In the first page, login page set the $_SESSION['user_id'] is stored the value that are fetch in database user id . it was working properly and also I print the session value in same page.and also navigate the next page.

Step 2 the next page is user home page, but in this page session variable is empty This works perfectly most of the times,but in a few cases the session variable is empty in the next page, even when

Welcome to Stack Overflow. Please take the [tour] to learn how Stack Overflow works and read [ask] on how to improve the quality of your question. Then [edit] your question to include your full source code you have as a [mcve], which can be tested by others. — Progman, Nov 17 '19 at 09:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 17 '19 at 09:18

0

You probably forgot to call session_start(); either on the homepage, on the login page or on both. You'll need to call it in every page you need it, to make the sessions variables available.

answered Nov 17 '19 at 09:18

Erick Mota

69
2

– Akshay Ashokan Nov 17 '19 at 10:35
Could you provide a code snippet? Without anything to look at it's kinda hard to help you. – Erick Mota Nov 18 '19 at 11:29

why the session variable is empty?

1 Answers1