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PHP Session lost after header redirect

Published on March 29, 2009 in PHP and Tips. 1 Comment Tags: .

I was just working on some PHP and encountered a problem where my session was lost after doing a header redirect. After googling and doing some read up, I realised that the problem lies with using simplexml with the session variables:

For example:
$name = $simplexml -> table[0] -> name
$_SESSION["name"] = $name;

if you attempt to do a header redirect thereafter: header(”anotherpage.php”); , and try to access the session variable in anotherpage.php like

echo $_SESSION["name"];

Then an error might occur which says “Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Node no longer exists in …”

The solution to this problem is simple, simply cast the $name above to (string)$name so it looks like:

$name = $simplexml -> table[0] -> name
$_SESSION["name"] = (string)$name;