Unable to start session. I have already looked at my code in the last couple of hours, and I cannot understand what is wrong with it. The problem I am facing is that every time I enter a username and password, it just redirects me to the login page to re-enter the information when it should show the protectedpage.php file ..
Here is my code:
loginproc.php page . This page executes if statements and goes straight to else
<?php // Inialize session session_start(); // Include database connection settings include('../../model/database.php'); // Retrieve username and password from database according to user input $login = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user WHERE (username = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['username']) . "') and (password = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['password']) . "')"); // Check username and password match if (mysql_num_rows($login) == 1) { // Set username session variable $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; // Jump to secured page header('Location: securedpage.php'); } else { // Jump to login page header('Location: index.php'); } ?>
securepage.php page
<?php <html> <head> <title>Secured Page</title> </head> <body> <p>This is secured page with session: <b><?php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?></b> <br>You can put your restricted information here.</p> <p><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></p> </body> </html>
database.php page
<?php $dsn = 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=sports_db'; $username = ''; $password = ''; $options = array(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); try { $db = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password, $options); } catch (PDOException $e) { $error_message = $e->getMessage(); include 'errors/db_error_connect.php'; exit; } function display_db_error($error_message) { global $app_path; include 'errors/db_error.php'; exit; } ?>
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