PHP Session variables not being passed to the next page

Question

I know this title is duplicate to 1000\'s of other posts related to an issue and I apologize in advance if the solution is out there. Trust me I went through tons of posts regar

Answer 1

FIXED:

I feel rather stupid after finding the solution but @webgal was right. I needed to put session_start() before < !DOCTYPE HTML> as well. I had it right below it and above the html tag. I'd like to thank you all for your time, patience and effort and sincerely apologize for my ignorance!