CodeIgniter session holds value 1 instead of true - php

In my codeigniter application I have specified a session as below
$this->session->isLoggedIn = true;
echo "Session";
echo $this->session->isLoggedIn;
even though I assign true the output shows as 1 instead. What have I done wrong here?
would really appreciate some help
EDIT :- The problem was actually in the following
When I try to acess this session from another method the session value is set to null. My other function is defined as
public function isLoggedIn()
{
var_dump($this->session->isLoggedIn);
if ((isset($this->session->isLoggedIn)=="true"))
{
return "true";
}
else
{
return "Sorry,false";
}
}
the vardump that I am printing in this isLoggedIn function is Null even though the session variable was assigned as displayed in the initial code above

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My php function is not able to change it´s class variable value

So I have this problem: I have function called admin_connected(boolean) and in the code I put true or false into this boolean whether username and password are correct or not. This function is a class called Driver and what I want to happen is that when the function is triggered it saves the boolean value into a Driver´s variable so I can work with the value later. What happens is it doesn´t save the value at all.
class Driver
{
public $is_admin_connected_q;
public function admin_connected($admin_connected)
{
$this->is_admin_connected_q = $admin_connected; // Does not save the value
}
public function return_is_admin_connected() // Function used to tell the program whether it should
// render standard UI or administrator´s UI
{
return($this->is_admin_connected_q;);
}
}
I am 100% sure the problem is in saving the boolean value in $this->is_admin_connected_q because if I write
public function admin_connected($admin_connected)
{
$this->is_admin_connected_q = true;
}
changing the value of $admin_connected manually to true it doesn´t work. However if I write that
public $is_admin_connected_q = true;
it works perfectly. The problem isn´t in refreshing the page because it doesn´t even work immediately after signing up sa administraitor.
Do you guys have any clues how to solve this problem. I´ll be welcoming any help.
This problem is inside return_is_admin_connected() function. Change it as follows:
public function return_is_admin_connected()
{
return $this->is_admin_connected_q;
}

Why is my method returning false?

I am trying to create an instance of a class "announcement".
For example:
$announcement = new announcement;
//code to bind data
$announcement->store();
My store function runs a query to store the information to the database. Everything is working as intended and storing to my database. However when I say:
if($announcement->store())
{
echo 'success';
}
else{
echo 'failure';
}
I get the 'failure' message. Why is my method returning false when it is actually working? Am I missing something with conditional statements and methods?
UPDATE
My store function was not returning anything. So even though it worked it was returning a null value. I return true on query success and now it is working as intended. Thank you.
The store function should return true then your statement will print success message
class announcement {
public function store() {
// after execution code the return value should be like this
return true;
}
}

Session variables not resetting

I'm having trouble resetting session variables in PHP. I'm now trying just testing resetting the session variable like this, but this doesn't even work:
session_start();
$_SESSION["name"] =false;
if (!isset($_SESSION["name"])) {
$message = getname(); //can't get this to ever be called
} else {
$message = welcome();
}
What am I missing here?
You want to unset the session variable
unset($_SESSION['name']);
Setting it to false makes it so it's still set (so isset will still return true), the only difference is that the actual value of the variable has changed to false.

Can not log out correctly PHP

I can log in and access all member pages, but when I log out, I can still access all memberspages
I use this code to log out:
$_SESSION["admin_id"] = false;
$_SESSION["username"] = null;
redirect_to("login.php");
and this code to check if a user is logged in,
function logged_in() {
return isset($_SESSION["admin_id"]);
}
function confirm_logged_in($page) {
if (!logged_in()) {
redirect_to($page);
}
}
he redirects me after i have used the log out code. But i can still type in the member page URL and access them like I am logged in. I use an other webbrowser its impossible, so the pages are protected correctly. Or do I need to destroy the cookie and session complectly?
Here's what you're doing when you logout.
You are setting admin_id to false (which is technically a value).
$_SESSION["admin_id"] = false;
You then check to see whether admin_id is set:
isset($_SESSION['admin_id'); // returns TRUE because it "IS SET" to false
Options
You can either check whether admin_id is not empty (which handles null, false, 0).
function logged_in() {
return ! empty($_SESSION["admin_id"]);
}
You can extend your current function.
function logged_in() {
return isset($_SESSION["admin_id"] && $_SESSION["admin_id"] !== false);
}
You can set the variable to null.
$_SESSION['admin_id'] = null;
You can destroy the session completely.
session_destroy();
In place of:
$_SESSION["admin_id"] = false;
Try this:
unset($_SESSION["admin_id"]);
If you really need to log out, in my opinion your best option is to invalidate the session with a simple session_destroy().
By doing this you can check $_SESSION with the isset() function without problems, since every parameter belonging to the old session has been unset.

cookie won't set

This is a question regarding an old one of mine: cookie won't unset:
cookie wont unset
where I had problems unseting the cookie (but it was set 'properly'),
Now that the problem is solved; the cookie doesn't seem to SET
cookie 'set': (does not work)
setcookie("id",$data['id'], time()+3600*24*30,'/');
setcookie("alias",$data['nombre'], time()+3600*24*30,'/');
cookie check: (seems to work)
function sesion(){
if(isset($_COOKIE['id']) && isset($_COOKIE['alias'])){
$_SESSION['logueado'] = true;
$_SESSION['id'] = $_COOKIE['id'];
$_SESSION['alias'] = $_COOKIE['alias'];
return true; //THIS IS NEVER RETURNING TRUE
}
if(isset($_SESSION['id']) && isset($_SESSION['logueado']) && $_SESSION['logueado'] == true){
return true;
}
else{ return false;
}
}
cookie unset: (works)
function cerrar_sesion(){
session_start();
$_SESSION['logueado']= false;
$_SESSION['id']= NULL;
session_unset();
session_destroy();
setcookie("id",false,time()-3600,"/");
setcookie("alias",false,time()-3600,"/");
unset($_COOKIE['id']);
unset($_COOKIE['alias']);
}
What happens is that login is working only through $_SESSION so after 30 minutes of no activity the user is no longer logged in,
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks a lot!
As stated above you cannot read a cookie from the same page as it is set. I see you have tried tricking this using ajax but i do not believe that would be a valid trick as Ajax calls do not change the state of the page you are still on. so you can either do a full refresh or redirect OR at the same time you use setcookie you can also define the values you need in $_COOKIE so its available on the same page. like this:
setcookie("id",$data['id'], time()+3600*24*30,'/');
setcookie("alias",$data['nombre'], time()+3600*24*30,'/');
$_COOKIE['id'] = $data['id'];
$_COOKIE['alias'] = $data['nombre'];
set cookie lines work fine with me.
as for }else if(isset($_COOKIE['id']) && i
since you return if you remove the else here is still okay, if there was no return above you would have to keep the else here in order not to evaluate this block
generally speaking I am not sure that elseif is the same with else if in all cases
The way the function session is build will act like this:
On the first load it will show: no cookie, no session because you cannot see a cookie until reload (which I guess you already know).
-On second load you will see cookie alive session set.
-after the second load you always see session is set.
All I want to say that session works exactly as expected to work, so I don't really see any problem.
<?php
$data='Hello';
setcookie("id",$data['id'], time()+3600*24*30,'/');
setcookie("alias",$data['nombre'], time()+3600*24*30,'/');
session_start();
function sesion()
{
if(isset($_SESSION['id']) && isset($_SESSION['logueado'])
&& $_SESSION['logueado'] == true)
{
echo 'SESSION IS SET<br>';
return true;
}
if(isset($_COOKIE['id']) && isset($_COOKIE['alias']))
{
$_SESSION['logueado'] = true;
$_SESSION['id'] = $_COOKIE['id'];
$_SESSION['alias'] = $_COOKIE['alias'];
echo 'COOKIE is alive and session set'.$_SESSION['alias'].'<br>';
return true; //THIS IS NEVER RETURNING TRUE
}
else
{
echo 'NO SESSION, NO COOKIE YET, WAIT UNTIL REFRESH<br>';
return false;
}
}
sesion() ;
?>
Try removing the path parameter from your setcookie() calls, maybe that's the issue.
Also, did you check that $data actually contains any data?
Propably you have really known problem with setting cookies and you have disabled error reporting about warnings.
Just try:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
You will propably see at your page something like "Cannot modify headers. Headers already sent". That because you need to SET cookies before you display anything on your page. So solution to resolve your problem is to implement your code to SET cookies at the bottom of your page or use ob_start/ob_clean.
Let me know if it helps :)
According to the "setcookie()" implementation in PHP, the cookie value check will not work until you move the control from the page that you are creating the cookie. So, your "SET" will create the cookie in one page and "sesion()" should be called from other page to check the value of the cookie that you set. Try it and hope it helps!
Try the following approach (please refine this as per your need). What I am trying here to refresh the page itself after setting the cookie and the "sesion()" function is a dynamic function that may or may not have any arguments. So, when you pass any argument to it, the the cookie will be set, otherwise it will be checked for existence. An accompanying function with func_num_args() is func_get_args(). It will help you to sanitize the expected arguments in the function.
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
ini_set("log_errors", 0);
session_start();
function sesion(){
// func_num_args() number of arguments passed to the function
if (func_num_args() == 0) { // if no arguments were passed, means the page is refreshed and cookie won't be set further
if(isset($_COOKIE['id']) && isset($_COOKIE['alias'])){
$_SESSION['logueado'] = true;
$_SESSION['id'] = $_COOKIE['id'];
$_SESSION['alias'] = $_COOKIE['alias'];
return true; //THIS IS NEVER RETURNING TRUE
}
if(isset($_SESSION['id']) && isset($_SESSION['logueado']) && $_SESSION['logueado'] == true){
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
else { // if number of args > 0, means you need to cookie here and refresh the page itself
global $data; // set this to global as the $data will be available outside of this function
setcookie("id",$data['id'], time()+3600*24*30,'/');
setcookie("alias",$data['nombre'], time()+3600*24*30,'/');
/**
* refresh the page by javascript instead of header()
* as header already being sent by the session_start()
*/
echo '<script language="javascript">
<!--
window.location.replace("' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '");
//-->
</script>';
die();
}
}
sesion(1); // passed an argument to set the cookie
?>
I think you will face issue with the JavaScript section, as it will change the page URL and I guess you are trying to include this script into the pages. So, I will take the help of call_user_func() and the final "else" part after the setcookie() lines will be changed with the following line:
call_user_func("sesion");
Hope this will make sense now.

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