[SOLVED] how to retrieve user login

[Imad]

Hi guys, I need some help with retrieving the user login. After the user logs in, a cookie is set. Is their anyway I can grab the username that he logged in with? I need this so I can echo who he's logged in as.

Best Regards.

[waynew]

$username = $_POST['username'];

echo $username;

[waynew]

My bad, you said cookie.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_cookies.asp

[revraz]

Cookies or no cookies, if he used a username to log in with, why not just store that in a session while they are on your site?

[waynew]

Exactly

 

$_SESSION['username'] = $username;

[Imad]

Thanks for your replies guys. I tried doing something like this:

 

 

if (isset($_SESSION['valid_user'])) {
echo "$username";
}

 

The session that is set with the cookie looks like this:

$_SESSION['valid_user'] = $username;

 

It didn't work, I just get a blank output.

Any Ideas,

Thanks.

 

[trq]

session_start();

if (isset($_SESSION['valid_user'])) {
  echo $_SESSION['valid_user'];
}

[xtopolis]

<?php
if (isset($_SESSION['valid_user'])) {
  $username = $_SESSION['valid_user'];
}

echo "You are logged in as $username";
?>

 

Set username = to the session var., or just echo $_SESSION['valid_user'];

[Imad]

Now it works. I already had the session_start() since I switch the signup button, login, etc to other links after login. I just couldn't get the username to work.

Thanks a lot guys!