bonzie Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Hi all,Because giving through session variables don't work I would like to try session ids.This is my idea1. Login page with form to fill out username and password (no session_start(); ), directed to home.php2. home.php:[code]<?phpsession_start();$username = $HTTP_POST_VARS['userName']; // this is correct!$id=$username;?><html><body><a href="recomm.php?<?php echo $id?>">Link</a>[/code]3. recomm.php[code]session_start();[/code]here I need the username of the user logged in. So I thought that I could use the variable $id...However, this variable is now empty.What do I do wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joecooper Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 to use sessions. all pages that are using them needs to havesession_start(); at the top of them$_SESSION[''] is the varible usedso to set the session varible for username use$_SESSION['username'] = $username;then across the other pages, you can bring up $_SESSION['username'] and it will return what ever the $username varible was set as in the first page[code]<?phpsession_start();$username = $HTTP_POST_VARS['userName']; // this is correct!$id=$username;?>[/code]change to this[code]<?phpsession_start();$username = $HTTP_POST_VARS['userName']; // this is correct!$id=$username;$_SESSION['username'] = $username;?>[/code]this will set the session varibleand on the other page, use this to echo the usernameecho "Welcome, {$_SESSION['username']}."; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzie Posted June 20, 2006 Author Share Posted June 20, 2006 okI tried this, however I don't get the username with the echo statement...Anyone an idea? [!--quoteo(post=385966:date=Jun 20 2006, 01:33 PM:name=joecooper)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(joecooper @ Jun 20 2006, 01:33 PM) [snapback]385966[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]to use sessions. all pages that are using them needs to havesession_start(); at the top of them$_SESSION[''] is the varible usedso to set the session varible for username use$_SESSION['username'] = $username;then across the other pages, you can bring up $_SESSION['username'] and it will return what ever the $username varible was set as in the first page[code]<?phpsession_start();$username = $HTTP_POST_VARS['userName']; // this is correct!$id=$username;?>[/code]change to this[code]<?phpsession_start();$username = $HTTP_POST_VARS['userName']; // this is correct!$id=$username;$_SESSION['username'] = $username;?>[/code]this will set the session varibleand on the other page, use this to echo the usernameecho "Welcome, {$_SESSION['username']}.";[/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joecooper Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 $uname = $_SESSION['username'];echo "Welcome, $uname .";try that instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzie Posted June 20, 2006 Author Share Posted June 20, 2006 That doesn't work neither :s[!--quoteo(post=385977:date=Jun 20 2006, 01:56 PM:name=joecooper)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(joecooper @ Jun 20 2006, 01:56 PM) [snapback]385977[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]$uname = $_SESSION['username'];echo "Welcome, $uname .";try that instead[/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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