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PHP sessions

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I'm new to this group and to PHP.
I'm very familiar with Java and I'm trying to compare PHP session 
handling with J2EE session handling and I've come up with a bit of a 
problem.

I have the following code in step1.php. code for sessionStatus shown after

step1.php, redirect commented out

<?php
require '../functions/utilities.php';

echo "step1 - check session - ";
sessionStatus();
echo "<br> starting session";
session_start();
echo "<br> session started";
sessionStatus();
//header("location: step2.php");
?>

I get the following output
step1 - check session -
there is no session
starting session
session started
there is an active session

if I then enable the redirect to step2.php

step2.php

<?php
require '../functions/utilities.php';

echo "step2 - check session - ";
sessionStatus();
?>

I would expect to see "there is an active session" but what I get is

step2 - check session -
there is no session

Huh! what am I missing
thanks

code for sessionStatus

function sessionStatus(){
    echo "<br>";
    switch (session_status()) {
	case PHP_SESSION_DISABLED:
         echo "session is disabled";
	break;
	case PHP_SESSION_NONE:
	echo "there is no session";
	break;
	case PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE:
	echo "there is an active session";
	break;
	default:
	echo "unknown status";
	}
}

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PHP sessions madwomans Dad <dsvirtual58@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 09:19 +0100
  Re: PHP sessions "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2018-05-06 12:51 +0200
    Re: PHP sessions madwomans Dad <dsvirtual58@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 12:59 +0100
      Re: PHP sessions "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2018-05-06 14:11 +0200
      Re: PHP sessions Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2018-05-06 14:13 +0200
        Re: PHP sessions madwomans Dad <dsvirtual58@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 14:08 +0100
          Re: PHP sessions "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2018-05-06 15:22 +0200
            Re: PHP sessions madwomans Dad <dsvirtual58@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 16:01 +0100
              Re: PHP sessions "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2018-05-06 17:27 +0200
                Re: PHP sessions madwomans Dad <dsvirtual58@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 19:17 +0100
      Re: PHP sessions "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-05-06 18:57 +0200
  Re: PHP sessions Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-05-06 13:21 -0400

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