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    copied!<p>I am unable to use session variables on a page other than the one where they are set, IOW they act like non-session variables. I have found a similar question posted in half a dozen other similar fora, but the answer in those other cases always turns out not to apply. </p> <p>Here are my files:</p> <p><em>sess1.php</em></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php session_start(); session_register("userid"); session_register("textvar"); $_SESSION['userid'] = 10333 ; $_SESSION['textvar'] = TextVariable ; echo "&lt;p&gt;User ID is: " . $_SESSION['userid'] . "&lt;/p&gt;" ; echo "&lt;p&gt;Another variable is: " . $_SESSION['textvar'] . "&lt;/p&gt;" ; ?&gt; &lt;p&gt;Go to the &lt;a href="sess2.php"&gt;next page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; </code></pre> <p>and, <em>sess2.php</em></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php session_start(); echo "&lt;p&gt;The userid session variable is: " . $_SESSION['userid'] . "&lt;/p&gt;"; echo "&lt;p&gt;The other session variable is: " . $_SESSION['newvar']. "&lt;/p&gt; "; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>The browser output in each case is:</p> <p><em>sess1.php</em></p> <blockquote> <p>User ID is: 10333</p> <p>Another variable is: TextVariable</p> <p>Go to the [next page].</p> </blockquote> <p>and, <em>sess2.php</em></p> <blockquote> <p>The userid session variable is:</p> <p>The other session variable is:</p> <p>Go to the [last page].</p> </blockquote> <p>A few things it is NOT:</p> <ul> <li>I do have session_start() at the top of both files.</li> <li>The variables directory is writable, and the session variables are showing up there. (I have about a hundred little files called sess_b62, that have this inside: 'userid|i:10333;textvar|s:12:"TextVariable";'.)</li> <li>phpinfo() tells me that the php.ini file is being read correctly and the lifetime is set to the default, 0, i.e. until the browser is closed.</li> </ul> <p>I'm at my wit's end. Any suggestions?</p> <p>Thanks so much.</p>
 

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