why wont my whos online script work?

[elduderino]

session_start();
$name = ($_SESSION['first_name']);
if(!isset($_SESSION['online'])){ 
  require_once ('mysql_connect.php');
  print_r($_SESSION);
  $sql = "INSERT INTO ppl_online (session_id, activity, ip_address, refurl,user_agent, user_name) VALUES ('".session_id()."', NOW(), '{$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']}', '{$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']}', '{$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']}', '$name')"; 

$queries = mysql_query($sql);

if($queries) { 

    $_SESSION['online'] == '1'; 
    
   

}

} 

 

if(isset($_SESSION['online'])){         

   $sql = "UPDATE ppl_online SET activity=now() WHERE session_id='".session_id()."'";

   $query = mysql_query($sql); 

Could anyone tell me why this wouldnt be working....? IN my dev environment ( php 4) it works fine but my server is running php 5 and it doesnt work...the orignal insert does not get done....

Any ideas?





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[Cups]

With error reporting switched on for this page what error does it come out with?

I cant see a php4/php5 issue. Sounds like it might be a change of something in your ini files.

Try and put the include file in the same directory as this script and see what effect that has.

This snippet is missing a closing } (though it appears at the end of your posting?)

[wheeler]

If its just the insert query not working and the page is parsed ok, you should just change to $queries = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());