I am trying to find a way to check whether there is a session. And if there isn't, redirect back to the start.php page.
These are the pages I have made.
start.php
<form action="form.php" method="post">
<p>Please enter your name to continue:</p>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
<input type="submit" name="enter" id="enter" value="Enter" />
</form>
form.php
Above the head:
<?php session_start(); ?>
In the body:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['enter'])){
if($_POST['name'] != ""){
$_SESSION['name'] = stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
}
}
$name = $_SESSION['name'];
echo $name;
?>
Attempt
I have putting this above the head of the form (along with what is there now) but it just keeps me on the start.php page
<?php
if (!isset($_SESSION["name"]))
{
header("location: start.php");
}
else{
}
?>
more info
So currently if there is no session and I enter form.php it will redirect me to start.php. But if there is a session it will stay on form.php.
But if I start on start.php and submit the form (creating the session and moving to form.php) it will straight away redirect me back to start.php (the same page)?
code of the two pages in full:
start.php
<?php session_start(); ob_start(); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="deletethis.php" method="post">
<p>Please enter your name to continue:</p>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
<input type="submit" name="enter" id="enter" value="Enter" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
form.php
<?php
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION["name"]))
{
//header("location: delete1.php");
die('<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='.'delete1.php'.'" />');
}
else{
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['enter'])){
if($_POST['name'] != ""){
$_SESSION['name'] = stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
}
}
$name = $_SESSION['name'];
echo $name;
?>
</body>
</html>
What I have decide to do instead
if (strlen($name) <1){
echo '<script> window.location.replace("delete1.php");</script>';
}
