Accessing session variables with php

I am trying to access the session variable $_SESSION['MM_Username'] in one of my php pages, but it is somehow showing empty (i.e it does not contain the username that was entered during login).
I checked and confirmed that my login.php function is properly setting the MM_Username session variable by echoing it from the login function.
So why can't I read it from another php file in the same session? Do I need to do something else before the session variables can
be properly read from any php file in the same session? Any help would be appreciated.

Here is a test code I am using to access the session variable $_SESSION['MM_username'] from the php page test.php. But it is not working.
I get an empty string all the time for $username. Can any one see something wrong with this code?
<?php require_once('Connections/MyTestingConn.php'); ?>
<?php session_start(); ?>
<?php
$username = "-1";
if (isset($_SESSION['MM_username'])) {
$username = $_SESSION['MM_username'];
echo $username;
else
echo "Eror: can not access session variable";
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

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