First things first.... Do NOT

Greg K — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:38:05 +0000

First things first.... Do NOT use @ on a line unless you have a good reason. If you are using that, it usually means that you are not using good coding practices. In your code, you are using it to hide the warning that $_POST['email'] is set. This is just a big no-no in terms of good programming.

For this, instead you should actually be checking if it exists:

$_SESSION['session_var2'] = (isset($_POST['email'])) ? $_POST['email'] : FALSE;

Now onto the main issue you are having: You are having the form submit to sessionTest2.php, that is the script that will see $_POST['email']. There first one would only see it if you were coming from another page that had a form and it was set to post to it.

So move your session setting code for e-mail down to the second script, and it should set the session properly for you and then be available anywhere else the session is alive.