<?php
$name=$_GET['var'];
if($_SESSION["loginvalue"]==1)
{
echo "Welcome,$name";
echo " <a href='login.php'>Logout</a>";
}
?>
This is code i have used to maintain session in the page. What i want is if some enter local/project/cms.php url in web browser then it should not open. I want cms.php to be open only if someone login first otherwise it should not be opened.
not 100% sure what you mean; but...
Firstly there are some issues with the code given, where's session_start(), your code is also open to XSS attack on the $name var because your not escaping input, you need to use htmlentities() user input if your going to display it back to the user. Also you need to check variables are set before using to avoid PHP undefined index warnings. Other then that, you basically check if user is logged in, if there not then you redirect them, to your login page.
<?php
session_start();
$name = isset($_GET['var']) ? $_GET['var'] : null;
if(isset($_SESSION["loginvalue"]) && $_SESSION["loginvalue"]==1)
{
echo "Welcome,".htmlentities($name, ENT_QUOTES);
echo ' Logout';
}else{
//Redirect user to login page if not logged in.
exit(header("location: ./login.php"));
}
?>
You may modify your code like this:
<?php
session_start();
$name=$_GET['var'];
if($_SESSION["loginvalue"]==1)
{
echo "Welcome, ". htmlentities($name, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");
echo " <a href='login.php'>Logout</a>";
}else{
//Redirect user to login page.
header("location: /login.php");
}
?>
Related
After successful login, the user should be redirected to the page he came from, let's say he's been browsing a post and wants to log in so he can leave a comment, so he should be redirected to the post he was browsing. So here is what I have:
login.php shows the login form:
<form method="post" action="login-check.php">
... //input for username and password
</form>
The login-check.php checks if the username and pass are entered, does the user exist, or if he's already logged in, and a p parameter is sent to login.php:
<?php
session_start();
if((empty($username) OR empty($password) AND !isset($_SESSION['id_login']))) {
header("Location:login.php?p=1");
exit();
}
elseif (!user_exists($username,$password) AND !isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
header("Location:login.php?p=2");
exit();
}
elseif(isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
header("Location:login.php?p=3");
exit();
}
?>
then parameter p is sent back to login.php and displays the according message:
<?php
if(isset($_GET['p'])) {
$p = $_GET["p"];
if($p=="1")
echo "<p class=\"red\">You didn't fill the form.</p><br></br>";
if($p=="2")
echo "<p class=\"red\">User exists.</p><br></br>";
if($p=="3")
header("Location: index.php");
}
?>
BUT, instead of going to index.php after successful login, it should go to the page the user has previously been. I've tried in different ways, but it either doesn't work at all or returns to login.php.
A common way to do this is to pass the user's current page to the Login form via a $_GET variable.
For example: if you are reading an Article, and you want to leave a comment. The URL for comments is comment.php?articleid=17. While comment.php is loading, it notices that you are not logged in. It wants to send you to login.php, like you showed earlier. However, we're going to change your script so that is also tells the login page to remember where you are:
header("Location:login.php?location=" . urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
// Note: $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is your current page
This should send the user to: login.php?location=comment.php%3Farticleid%3D17. login.php should now check to see if $_GET['location'] is populated. If it is populated, then send the user to this location (in this case, comment.php?articleid=17). For example:
// login.php
echo '<input type="hidden" name="location" value="';
if(isset($_GET['location'])) {
echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['location']);
}
echo '" />';
// Will show something like this:
// <input type="hidden" name="location" value="comment.php?articleid=17" />
// login-check.php
session_start();
// our url is now stored as $_POST['location'] (posted from login.php). If it's blank, let's ignore it. Otherwise, let's do something with it.
$redirect = NULL;
if($_POST['location'] != '') {
$redirect = $_POST['location'];
}
if((empty($username) OR empty($password) AND !isset($_SESSION['id_login']))) {
$url = 'login.php?p=1';
// if we have a redirect URL, pass it back to login.php so we don't forget it
if(isset($redirect)) {
$url .= '&location=' . urlencode($redirect);
}
header("Location: " . $url);
exit();
}
elseif (!user_exists($username,$password) AND !isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
$url = 'login.php?p=2';
if(isset($redirect)) {
$url .= '&location=' . urlencode($redirect);
}
header("Location:" . $url);
exit();
}
elseif(isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
// if login is successful and there is a redirect address, send the user directly there
if($redirect) {
header("Location:". $redirect);
} else {
header("Location:login.php?p=3");
}
exit();
}
Gotchas
You should run some validation against $_GET['location'] before sending the user there. For example, if I tell people who use your site to click on this link: login.php?location=http%3A%2F%2Fmalice.com%2Fevilpage.php... then they will be sent to a foreign URL that will try to do something bad.
Always make sure to use urlencode when passing URLs as $_GET parameters. This encodes special URL characters (such as ?, &, and %) so that they don't break your url (e.g.: login.php?location=comment.php?id=17 <- this has two ?'s and will not work correctly)
When user gets to the login page use this to see where is come from
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']
Then set this value into the session, and when he is authenticated use url from the session to redirect him back. But you should do some checking before, if the url is your site. Maybe he come from another site directly to login :)
You can save a page using php, like this:
$_SESSION['current_page'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
And return to the page with:
header("Location: ". $_SESSION['current_page'])
You should probably place the url to redirect to in a POST variable.
Since the login page is a separate page, I am assuming that you want to redirect to the page that the user reached the login page from.
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] will simply hold the current page. What you want to do is use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']
So save the HTTP_REFERER in a hidden element on your form <input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<?= $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?>" /> but keep in mind that in the PHP that processes the form you will need some logic that redirects back to the login page if login fails but also to check that the referer is actually your website, if it isn't, then redirect back to the homepage.
Another way, using SESSION
Assign current URL to session (use it on every page)
$_SESSION['rdrurl'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
and in your login page, use
if(isset($_SESSION['rdrurl']))
header('location: '.$_SESSION['rdrurl']);
else
header('location: http://example.com');
use something like
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
And if it's a successful login, display a link saying "Click here to go back" and a link to the referrer, and when the page loads, use some javascript to automatically load that page (don't use back() or whatever that function is as it won't re-load the page and it'll appear like the user never logged in.
You can use session to to store the current page on which you want to return after login and that will work for other pages if you maintain session properly. It is very useful technique as you can develop your breadcrumb using it.
you can use this:
$refererpage = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; //get referer stored in a variable
if (strpos($refererpage, $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']) == TRUE) { //if the start position of the referer and the server name is equal
$refvar= $refererpage; //create a mew variable to be used to locate header
} else { //if referer's address is not the same as server name
$refvar= "index.php"; //set the variable to another direction for this request
}
and add the header where ever u want as:
header('location: '. $refvr); //set the header location to the referer varaible
You should try something like $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].
You should first get user refer page in a variable using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; in your login page.
LIKE:
<?php
session_start();
$refPage = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
?>
And now when the user clicks to Login then change header location to user refer page
LIKE:
<?php
if(isset($_POST[login])){
session_start();
header('location:' . $refPage);
}
?>
And in this time you should first check that user refers page empty or not because your user can visit direct your login page then your $refPage variable will be empty so after Click to Login page stays here
LIKE:
<?php
if(isset($_POST[login])){
session_start();
$refPage = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; // get reffer page url
if(empty($refPage)){
header('location: yourredirectpage'); // if ref page is empty then set default redirect page.
}else{
header('location:' . $refPage); // or if ref page in not empty then redirect page to reffer page
}
}
?>
Or you can use input type hidden where you can set value $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
LIKE:
<input type="hidden" name="refPage" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?>">
And when a user clicks to Login then you can get the refPage value and redirect the previous page. And you should also check empty refer page. Because your user can visit direct your login page.
Thank you.
I have created a function to store URL of previous page
//functions.php
function set_previous_page_url(){
$current_url = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on' ? "https" : "http") . "://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}";
$previous_url = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
if (!($current_url === $previous_url)){
$_SESSION['redirect_url'] = $previous_url;
}
if(isset($_SESSION['redirect_url'])){
$url = $_SESSION['redirect_url'];
return $url;
} else {
$url = "index.php";
return $url;
}
}
And call this function in login.php
// login.php
<?php
// set previous page url to redirect after login
$url = set_previous_page_url();
if(ifItIsMethod('post')){
if(isset($_POST['username']) && isset($_POST['password'])){
if (login_user($_POST['username'], $_POST['password'])) {
redirect($url);
//unset session defined in set_previous_page_url() function
if(isset($_SESSION['redirect_url'])){
unset($_SESSION['redirect_url']);
}
}
}
}
?>
Construct the form action such that it 'remembers', or persists, the previous page by writing out a returnurl=value query string key/value pair to the URL - this can be passed from any page that redirects to login.
I think you might need the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if(isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
header("Location:" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
That should take the url they're at and redirect them them after a successful login.
how about this :: javascript+php
echo "<script language=javascript> javascript:history.back();</script>";
it will work same as the previous button in your browser
Use hidden input in your login page.
Like:
<input name="location" value="<?php if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; else echo 'products.php'; ?>" type="text" style="display: none;" />
You can try
echo "<SCRIPT>alert(\"Login Successful Redirecting To Previous Page \");history.go(-2)</SCRIPT>";
Or
echo "<SCRIPT>alert(\"Login Successful Redirecting To Previous Page \");history.go(-1)</SCRIPT>";
#philipobenito's answer worked best for me.
I first created a hidden input that contain the user's HTTP referer
<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<?= $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?>" />
and after a successful login i redirected the users to whatever value was stored in that hidden input
$_POST = filter_input_array(INPUT_POST, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
if(!empty($_POST['referer'])){
header('Location: '.$_POST['referer']);
}
else{
header('Location: members.php'); //members.php is a page used to send a user to their profile page.
}
exit;
After successful login, the user should be redirected to the page he came from, let's say he's been browsing a post and wants to log in so he can leave a comment, so he should be redirected to the post he was browsing. So here is what I have:
login.php shows the login form:
<form method="post" action="login-check.php">
... //input for username and password
</form>
The login-check.php checks if the username and pass are entered, does the user exist, or if he's already logged in, and a p parameter is sent to login.php:
<?php
session_start();
if((empty($username) OR empty($password) AND !isset($_SESSION['id_login']))) {
header("Location:login.php?p=1");
exit();
}
elseif (!user_exists($username,$password) AND !isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
header("Location:login.php?p=2");
exit();
}
elseif(isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
header("Location:login.php?p=3");
exit();
}
?>
then parameter p is sent back to login.php and displays the according message:
<?php
if(isset($_GET['p'])) {
$p = $_GET["p"];
if($p=="1")
echo "<p class=\"red\">You didn't fill the form.</p><br></br>";
if($p=="2")
echo "<p class=\"red\">User exists.</p><br></br>";
if($p=="3")
header("Location: index.php");
}
?>
BUT, instead of going to index.php after successful login, it should go to the page the user has previously been. I've tried in different ways, but it either doesn't work at all or returns to login.php.
A common way to do this is to pass the user's current page to the Login form via a $_GET variable.
For example: if you are reading an Article, and you want to leave a comment. The URL for comments is comment.php?articleid=17. While comment.php is loading, it notices that you are not logged in. It wants to send you to login.php, like you showed earlier. However, we're going to change your script so that is also tells the login page to remember where you are:
header("Location:login.php?location=" . urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
// Note: $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is your current page
This should send the user to: login.php?location=comment.php%3Farticleid%3D17. login.php should now check to see if $_GET['location'] is populated. If it is populated, then send the user to this location (in this case, comment.php?articleid=17). For example:
// login.php
echo '<input type="hidden" name="location" value="';
if(isset($_GET['location'])) {
echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['location']);
}
echo '" />';
// Will show something like this:
// <input type="hidden" name="location" value="comment.php?articleid=17" />
// login-check.php
session_start();
// our url is now stored as $_POST['location'] (posted from login.php). If it's blank, let's ignore it. Otherwise, let's do something with it.
$redirect = NULL;
if($_POST['location'] != '') {
$redirect = $_POST['location'];
}
if((empty($username) OR empty($password) AND !isset($_SESSION['id_login']))) {
$url = 'login.php?p=1';
// if we have a redirect URL, pass it back to login.php so we don't forget it
if(isset($redirect)) {
$url .= '&location=' . urlencode($redirect);
}
header("Location: " . $url);
exit();
}
elseif (!user_exists($username,$password) AND !isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
$url = 'login.php?p=2';
if(isset($redirect)) {
$url .= '&location=' . urlencode($redirect);
}
header("Location:" . $url);
exit();
}
elseif(isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
// if login is successful and there is a redirect address, send the user directly there
if($redirect) {
header("Location:". $redirect);
} else {
header("Location:login.php?p=3");
}
exit();
}
Gotchas
You should run some validation against $_GET['location'] before sending the user there. For example, if I tell people who use your site to click on this link: login.php?location=http%3A%2F%2Fmalice.com%2Fevilpage.php... then they will be sent to a foreign URL that will try to do something bad.
Always make sure to use urlencode when passing URLs as $_GET parameters. This encodes special URL characters (such as ?, &, and %) so that they don't break your url (e.g.: login.php?location=comment.php?id=17 <- this has two ?'s and will not work correctly)
When user gets to the login page use this to see where is come from
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']
Then set this value into the session, and when he is authenticated use url from the session to redirect him back. But you should do some checking before, if the url is your site. Maybe he come from another site directly to login :)
You can save a page using php, like this:
$_SESSION['current_page'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
And return to the page with:
header("Location: ". $_SESSION['current_page'])
You should probably place the url to redirect to in a POST variable.
Since the login page is a separate page, I am assuming that you want to redirect to the page that the user reached the login page from.
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] will simply hold the current page. What you want to do is use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']
So save the HTTP_REFERER in a hidden element on your form <input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<?= $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?>" /> but keep in mind that in the PHP that processes the form you will need some logic that redirects back to the login page if login fails but also to check that the referer is actually your website, if it isn't, then redirect back to the homepage.
Another way, using SESSION
Assign current URL to session (use it on every page)
$_SESSION['rdrurl'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
and in your login page, use
if(isset($_SESSION['rdrurl']))
header('location: '.$_SESSION['rdrurl']);
else
header('location: http://example.com');
use something like
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
And if it's a successful login, display a link saying "Click here to go back" and a link to the referrer, and when the page loads, use some javascript to automatically load that page (don't use back() or whatever that function is as it won't re-load the page and it'll appear like the user never logged in.
You can use session to to store the current page on which you want to return after login and that will work for other pages if you maintain session properly. It is very useful technique as you can develop your breadcrumb using it.
you can use this:
$refererpage = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; //get referer stored in a variable
if (strpos($refererpage, $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']) == TRUE) { //if the start position of the referer and the server name is equal
$refvar= $refererpage; //create a mew variable to be used to locate header
} else { //if referer's address is not the same as server name
$refvar= "index.php"; //set the variable to another direction for this request
}
and add the header where ever u want as:
header('location: '. $refvr); //set the header location to the referer varaible
You should try something like $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].
You should first get user refer page in a variable using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; in your login page.
LIKE:
<?php
session_start();
$refPage = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
?>
And now when the user clicks to Login then change header location to user refer page
LIKE:
<?php
if(isset($_POST[login])){
session_start();
header('location:' . $refPage);
}
?>
And in this time you should first check that user refers page empty or not because your user can visit direct your login page then your $refPage variable will be empty so after Click to Login page stays here
LIKE:
<?php
if(isset($_POST[login])){
session_start();
$refPage = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; // get reffer page url
if(empty($refPage)){
header('location: yourredirectpage'); // if ref page is empty then set default redirect page.
}else{
header('location:' . $refPage); // or if ref page in not empty then redirect page to reffer page
}
}
?>
Or you can use input type hidden where you can set value $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
LIKE:
<input type="hidden" name="refPage" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?>">
And when a user clicks to Login then you can get the refPage value and redirect the previous page. And you should also check empty refer page. Because your user can visit direct your login page.
Thank you.
I have created a function to store URL of previous page
//functions.php
function set_previous_page_url(){
$current_url = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on' ? "https" : "http") . "://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}";
$previous_url = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
if (!($current_url === $previous_url)){
$_SESSION['redirect_url'] = $previous_url;
}
if(isset($_SESSION['redirect_url'])){
$url = $_SESSION['redirect_url'];
return $url;
} else {
$url = "index.php";
return $url;
}
}
And call this function in login.php
// login.php
<?php
// set previous page url to redirect after login
$url = set_previous_page_url();
if(ifItIsMethod('post')){
if(isset($_POST['username']) && isset($_POST['password'])){
if (login_user($_POST['username'], $_POST['password'])) {
redirect($url);
//unset session defined in set_previous_page_url() function
if(isset($_SESSION['redirect_url'])){
unset($_SESSION['redirect_url']);
}
}
}
}
?>
Construct the form action such that it 'remembers', or persists, the previous page by writing out a returnurl=value query string key/value pair to the URL - this can be passed from any page that redirects to login.
I think you might need the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if(isset($_SESSION['id_login'])) {
header("Location:" . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
That should take the url they're at and redirect them them after a successful login.
how about this :: javascript+php
echo "<script language=javascript> javascript:history.back();</script>";
it will work same as the previous button in your browser
Use hidden input in your login page.
Like:
<input name="location" value="<?php if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; else echo 'products.php'; ?>" type="text" style="display: none;" />
You can try
echo "<SCRIPT>alert(\"Login Successful Redirecting To Previous Page \");history.go(-2)</SCRIPT>";
Or
echo "<SCRIPT>alert(\"Login Successful Redirecting To Previous Page \");history.go(-1)</SCRIPT>";
#philipobenito's answer worked best for me.
I first created a hidden input that contain the user's HTTP referer
<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<?= $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?>" />
and after a successful login i redirected the users to whatever value was stored in that hidden input
$_POST = filter_input_array(INPUT_POST, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
if(!empty($_POST['referer'])){
header('Location: '.$_POST['referer']);
}
else{
header('Location: members.php'); //members.php is a page used to send a user to their profile page.
}
exit;
I am dealing with a PHP site that use cookies to login users; the problem is I can't get the input email from the login page to the home page.
I always get this in the home page:
(Welcome Email!)
where it should be:
(Welcome user#gmail.com!)
Here is my code of the home page:
<?php
if (isset($_COOKIE["Email"])){
echo "Welcome " . $_COOKIE["Email"]. "!<br>";
echo 'logout';
}
else{
setcookie("Email", "Email", time()-50000);
echo 'you are logged out please login';
}
?>
You need to show us the code on your login page so that we know how you are setting your "Email" cookie variable, like did you use
setcookie("Email", "bla_blah_blah");
Have you tried using sessions instead?
After successful login, before redirect:
session_start();
$_SESSION['Email']="user#gmail.com";
Then on your welcome page:
<?php
session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION["Email"])){
echo "Welcome " . $_SESSION["Email"]. "!<br>";
echo 'logout';
}
else{
setcookie("Email", "Email", time()-50000);
echo 'you are logged out please login';
}
?>
This also has the added benefit of storing the session info on your server as opposed to on the user's computer.
To kill the session just use:
session_destroy();
I'm trying to integrate a php login script that I have working, but I can't seem to get simple php calls going on a page. On this user profile page, I want to simply have the user name displayed (mysql field is "name"). The user is logged in and the session carries through, but on this page, all I see is the text "Here is your profile info..." What might be wrong in the code to prevent the user name from displaying?
<?php
include_once('classes/check.class.php');
include_once('header.php');
if( protectThis("*") ):
if(!isset($_SESSION)) {
session_start();
}
if(isset($_SESSION['jigowatt']['name'])) {
echo "You're name is: " . $_SESSION['jigowatt']['name'];
}
?>
<br />
Here are is your profile info...
<?php
else :
?>
<div class="alert alert-warning">
<?php _e('Only signed in users can view what\'s hidden here!'); ?></div>
<?php
endif;
include_once('footer.php');
?>
For check session is set already use session_id() Also check you have set $_SESSION['jigowatt']['name'] already with empty()
if(session_id() == '') {
session_start();
}
if(!empty($_SESSION['jigowatt']['name'])) {
echo "You're name is: " . $_SESSION['jigowatt']['name'];
}
else {
echo 'username is empty';
}
You need to put session_start(); at the very top of the page. No white space can be put before that. Try if that works.
First you need to write the sessions at the very top of the page if it works than okay else you can try this.
Just append this 2 function before and after the session_start();
Like this
ob_start();
session_start();
ob_end_clean();
I have come along something i could not solve for so long.
i have created a script in php that unsets one single session variable, However the page stats the session Here is my code for the page :
<?php
session_start();
require_once("../header.php");
if($_SESSION['user']) {
unset($_SESSION['user']);
echo "you succesfully logged out.";
header("Refresh:5; url=http://www.webmasteroutlet.com");
} else {
echo "you are already NOT LOGGED IN right now.";
}
require_once("../footer.php");
?>
That is the whole code on this page. and it always prints out "you are already NOT LOGGED IN right now." $_SESSION['user'] is assigned true in login.php page and i have session_start(); at the very beginning of the page right after the <?php opening.
The session variable is recognized at all other files with php extension and that is the only single file that it is not working on. I also tried
<?php
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['user'];
?>
and it does not print anything. It simply skips that line and does nothing. What am i doing wrong ?
Thank You very much for your help.
this is the header.php code
<?php
session_start();
require("config.php"); // that only contains connection to the database and it is successful.
if(isset($_SESSION['user'])==1){
echo "<div id=\"topnav\" class=\"topnav\"><span>".$_SESSION['username']."</span> <span>LOGOUT</span></div>";
}
else if ($_SESSION['admin']) {
echo "<div id=\"topnav\" class=\"topnav\">"."<span>".$_SESSION['adminusername']."</span> ";
echo "<span>LOGOUT</span></div>";
}
else if ( !isset($_SESSION['user'])) {
require ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/users/login.php");
}
require("search.php");
?>
i think you need the if is set and make sure you pass the sessions data to this page it looks like your unsetting this
Try this:
<?php
session_start();
require_once("../header.php");
if(isset($_SESSION['user'])) {
echo "User.".$_SESSION['user']." you are being logged out";
unset($_SESSION['user']);
header("Refresh:5; url=http://www.webmasteroutlet.com");
} else {
echo "You are not logged or var SESSION doesnt exist";
}
require_once("../footer.php");
?>
If still doesnt work, try deleting the require_once lines(for debug).
Justin, I think you're not setting the $_SESSION['user']. That'd be the reason why you're getting NULL when you vardump.
One other possibility, although I'm limited to the scripts you provided, would be that you made it possible for a person to login through $_SESSION['admin'] as well as $_SESSION['user']. If this is the case you'd have to change the script to:
if(isset($_SESSION['user'])) {
unset($_SESSION['user']);
echo "user succesfully logged out.";
}elseif(isset($_SESSION['admin'])){
unset($_SESSION['admin']);
echo "admin succesfully logged out.";
}else{
echo "you are already NOT LOGGED IN right now.";
}