[SOLVED] Echoing session variable

[Vince889]

My website deals with books and use session cookies to remember the book that the user has selected.

When the user select his/her book, I do:

 

session_start();
$_SESSION['book'] = "Book Name Here";

 

This does successfully start the session, I've checked. Whether or not the $_SESSION['book'] is being properly stored, I have no idea.

I am trying to echo the value stored in $_SESSION['book'] using:

 

echo $_SESSION['book'];

but no success.

 

Any ideas guys? How can I tell if my session variable is really being stored? Am I doing it correctly? And how can I echo it?

 

 

EDIT: I just discovered that the session variable is infact set. I did:

 

if (isset($_SESSION['book'])) {
echo "  ";

That test worked. So how do I echo it. And still, am I setting these variables right?

[Maq]

Assuming that's on another page you need to include session_start before you can access the sessions just like when you assigned the value.

[Vince889]

Ah yes, silly me. I forgot. :x

 

Thank you, Maq.