PHP, if session is started redirect to a different page

Question

<?php 
1.
 if (isset($_SESSION['username'])) {
header('Location: log.php');
}

2.
 if (session_id() != '') {
    header('Location: log.php');
}
3.
if(isset($_SESSION['username']))
{
    header("Location: log.php");
    exit;
}

4.
 if (session_status() != PHP_SESSION_NONE) {
    header("Location: log.php");
}

?>

I want my php to redirect to from main.php to log.php if the session is live. I want to achieve an effect where logged on users cannot access a page and once they try to do it via a url they get automatically redirected to a different page. Above are the attempts I did and did not work for me.

Solution 1

You need session_start.

session_start();
if(!isset($_SESSION['username'])) {
    header("Location: log.php");
    exit;
}

Solution 2

I think that you miss the call to php session_start(). Try this:

<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['username'])) { header('Location: log.php'); }
?>

And be sure that your use logged account.

Comments

[Paul]

I think you forgot to use (or mention) session_start();

[sjagr]

Did you make sure to use session_start()? There will never be a session in any subsequent pages as long as session_start hasn't been declared. Use the presence of $_SESSION variables in combination with a previously declared session_start to take care of this properly.