Topic: Session value into a variable
Okay, I had a problem with variables and sessions and nobody seemed to know what was wrong so I'm including the entire source code so you can run it and see for yourself:
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home.php
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<?php
session_start();
$loggedIn = $_SESSION['userID'];
if ($loggedIn == null)
include("scripts/language.php");
else
$language = $_SESSION['lang'];
?>
<html>
<head>
<link href="styles/common.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<p><?php echo 'Session var: ' . $_SESSION['lang']; ?></p>
<p><?php echo 'Cookie var: ' . $_COOKIE['lang']; ?></p>
<p><?php echo 'Session: ' . $session; ?></p>
<p><?php echo 'Cookie: ' . $cookie; ?></p>
</body>
</html>------------
language.php
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<?php
$session = $_SESSION['lang'];
$cookie = $_COOKIE['lang'];
$server = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
if ($session != null)
{
$language = $session;
}
elseif ($cookie != null)
{
$language = $cookie;
}
elseif ($server != null)
{
$languageArray = explode(",", $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]);
$lang == "none";
foreach ($languageArray as $value)
{
if ($lang != "none")
{
$langArray = substr($value, 0, 2);
switch ($langArray)
{
case "de":
$lang = "en"; // should be "de"
break;
case "en":
$lang = "en";
break;
case "es":
$lang = "en"; // should be "es"
break;
case "fr":
$lang = "en"; // should be "fr"
break;
case "is":
$lang = "en"; // should be "is"
break;
}
}
if ($lang == "none")
$language = "en";
}
}
else
{
$language = "en";
}
$_SESSION['lang'] = $language;
$_COOKIE['lang'] = $language;
?>------------
expected results (with my language settings)
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Session: is
_SESSION: is
Cookie: is
_COOKIE: is
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actual results (with my language settings)
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Session:
_SESSION: is
Cookie: is
_COOKIE: is
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conclusion
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The 'lang' session never seems to be set because the session variable is always null. I asked a mate and had him read my code and he told me he'd had the same problem when he once tried to make a language selection script for his website and he was never able to resolve it. I hope I'm not doomed.
Last edited by Infant89 (June 10, 2009 12:00 pm)
