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Possible Session Problem

On my website, when a person logs in – a session is started and variables set with his/her information taken from the “users” database. This allows them to access their information where they can add, edit or delete certain information.

I registered as a user and entered some test information to make sure everything works, etc.. I left for a while without logging out and when I came back to access my information I found that I had access to someone else’s information instead of mine.

The login script is suppose to automatically log you out after a period of inactivity. I don’t know what happened here, but I’m hoping that someone could share some light on what possibly may have happened.

Doesn’t this destroy the session almost immediately?

[code=php]setcookie (session_name(), ”, time()-300, ‘/’, ”, 0); // Destroy the cookie.[/code]

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@apeaceJul 05.2008 — Well, you should probably just use session_destroy().

However, being able to access somebody else's information doesn't sound like it has anything to do with your session-clearing. You must have stored bad information in the session somehow, through bad queries or something like that. :/

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