Session not working as expected

[blueliner]

I’m trying to set up a session to maintain a login on a site I’m building. I’m new at PHP, but I’ve done some reading and I think my code is ok and it may be configuration-related. I need some help though, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I minimized my code quite a bit in order to try to pinpoint the problem. Here are two files that I’ve been using:

logintest.php

[code]<?php

session_start();

$_SESSION[‘USERNAME’] = “blueliner”;
$_SESSION[‘FIRSTNAME’] = “Danny”;

echo "You are logged in as " . $_SESSION[‘FIRSTNAME’] . “
”;

?>

Go[/code]

test.php

[code]<?php

session_start();

echo "You are logged in as " . $_SESSION[‘FIRSTNAME’] . “
”;

?>[/code]

The first page displays exactly as I would expect, but when I click the link to get to the test.php page, the session variable doesn’t come up. The server on which I’m renting space is running PHP 4.4.7.

TIA

[Acecool]

Make sure there is nothing outputted (like spaces or whatever) before session_start();

Everything else looks good!

How much code did you remove?

[blueliner]

Originally I wrote the pages with a lot more than what I entered here, but when things didn’t work, I cut them down to exactly what I posted above and the FIRSTNAME variable still doesn’t show on the logintest.php page. That’s what makes me think there’s some sort of configuration setting or something that I’m missing.

[blueliner]

I solved the problem. I added session.cookie_secure = Off to my php.ini. It didn’t appear in my php.ini, so I assumed that PHP was using the default (Off), but I guess my host had turned it on at another level.

Thanks for the help.