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    copied!<p>I have a problem with session. I have 3 php pages login, home and edit. When i login session is created successfully and goes to home. In home I have a link which goes to edit. But when i go to edit the session is unset. I tried to echo session value in both pages. It successfully shows session value in home but not in edit. What might be the problem? Please help.</p> <p>login.php</p> <pre><code> if($countStudent == 1){ $_SESSION['stuName']= $username; header("location:studenthome.php"); </code></pre> <p>home.php</p> <pre><code> &lt;?php error_reporting(0); session_start(); if(!isset($_SESSION['stuName'])) { echo "Click here to &lt;a href=\"index.php\"&gt;Re-LogIn&lt;/a&gt;"; } else if(isset($_POST['logout'])) { unset($_SESSION['stuName']); header('Location: index.php'); } else if(isset($_POST['edit'])) { header('Location: edit.php'); } ?&gt;&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="container"&gt; &lt;?php if (isset($_SESSION['stuName'])) { ?&gt; &lt;form id="studenthome" action="studenthome.php" method="post"/&gt; &lt;div id="menubar"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="logout" value="Logout" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="edit" value="Edit Profile" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;?php } ?&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>upto this everything is working fine.</p> <p>edit.php</p> <pre><code> session_start(); if(!isset($_SESSION['stuName'])) { echo "Click here to &lt;a href=\"index.php\"&gt;Re-LogIn&lt;/a&gt;"; } </code></pre>
 

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