I am trying out GAE for php and got lost in the app.yaml file construction. I can understand the part from the google tutorial which shows how to point all url request to a single file
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/gettingstarted/helloworld
But it does not help in my case. I am going to post what I have setup and the file structure is in the pic.
App.yaml
application: xxx
version: 1
runtime: php
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true
handlers:
- url: /stylesheets
static_dir: stylesheets
- url: /images
static_dir: images
- url: /scripts
static_dir: scripts
- url: /favicon.ico
static_files: favicon.ico
upload: favicon.ico
- url: /
script: main.php
login: required
auth_fail_action: redirect
- url: /main
script: main.php
login: required
auth_fail_action: redirect
So my landing page for xxx.appspot.com or xxx.appsport.com/main would be main.php. And it works fine.
main.php
<?php
session_start();
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
require_once 'google/appengine/api/users/UserService.php';
use google\appengine\api\users\User;
use google\appengine\api\users\UserService;
$user = UserService::getCurrentUser();
$name= $user->getNickname();
$name = explode(".",$name);
$name[0]= ucfirst($name[0]);
$name[1]= ucfirst($name[1]);
$name = $name[0]." ".$name[1];
$_SESSION['name']=$name;
$_SESSION['email']= getenv('USER_EMAIL');
header('Location: login.php');
So it loads starts a session and gets the user name and email do a few string formatting and then set as Session variable and then I check to match a condition and based on the condition redirect to another script which does some more validation and so on. To make is simple I am just redirecting it to login.php
login.php
<?php
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['name'];
So the out put displayed should be the session variable name but instead I get this
So what did I do wrong? I am going to use the login page to pull user data from a SQL db and based on the value redirect the user to different pages which will display different forms, tables, reports based on their settings.
Eg. From login.php
if userA belongs to Dept1
header('Location: /Dept1/main.php');
Else
header('Location: /Deptx/main.php');
So I expect a lot of redirects and each of the redirects must be able to also carry over the session variables that are set. I as able to do this while running on normal PHP server. The GAE version requires some re learning. I would like to thank any one in advance just for taking time to read till hear. Thank you.
Also it would be nice if some one could do a detail tutorial on how to use app.yaml and how it could be used with a demo example like in w3school.