Unexpected flashdata behavior

[eluser]mddd[/eluser]
The session cookie functions and the redirect function both use HTTP headers. Maybe they are getting in each others way somehow.
I have found some documentation saying that you should put out a redirect header BEFORE setting the cookies. In that case, CI's redirect() will not work. You could try setting the headers through PHP's header() function:

Code:

header('Location: '.site_url('admin/manage_entries');
$this->session->set_flashdata('status', 'error');
$this->session->set_flashdata('message', "Unable to load this entry for edit");    
exit();