Session variables contain no values

Hi everybody.

I'm experiencing strange problems with PHP session files:
a user submits a form with UID and PWD. The next page checks these
credentials, opens a session if successful, registers certain variables and
then redirects to the first application page.

**snip**
// logon.php, receives UID/PWD

if ($query_ok) {
session_start();
// register certain variables
session_write_close();

//redirect to Lounge
header ("Location: ./start.php?".SID);
}
**snap**

The start.php obviously receives a valid session variable PHPSESSID (visible
in the browser's address bar), the file to which also exists in the /tmp
directory. The variables are also registered in this file, however they
CONTAIN NO VALUES, not one of them !!

Can anybody help ?

Thanks,
Harald

Harald wrote:

> //redirect to Lounge
> header ("Location: ./start.php?".SID);
>
i'm not sure, but don't you have to write a name AND a value in the url?

header ("Location: ./start.php?id=".SID);

(guessing) peter