Displaying a username on a form

[daveeboi]

I'm wanting to have an echo statement at the top of a form for my registered site users that will automatically display their usernames so they don't have to enter it.

 

Do I have to use $_SESSION while doing so?

[DeanWhitehouse]

yes, or cookies

[daveeboi]

Have been trying

 

echo"Username \"{"$_SESSION['username']}"\n";

 

But with no luck, any helpful points?

 

[sader]

this example sould work

<?PHP 
session_start();
$_SESSION['username'] = "daveeboi";


echo"Username \"".$_SESSION['username']."\"";
?>

[Lodius2000]

do you mean that they will login and then say go to an order screen and that is where their name will already be filled out or  do you want the name to be filled out at the login screen,

 

the 1st case only requires sessions

 

the second you can add cookies to sessions and then it will remember the user