passing variable in url

[MidOhioIT]

I may be having a dumb attack.. I am not seeing the issue here...

 

my link is this:

<a href="permissions_admin.php?account_action=add">

 

For some reasson on the page it is not using the variable, not sure why...

Here is what is in the url:

permissions_admin.php?account_action=edit&sess_user=user2

 

I did a quick echo to see what was in them:

 

<?php
session_start();
echo "account_action is: $account_action<br>";
echo "account_user is: $sess_user<br>";
?>

 

The page says this:

 

account_action is:

account_user is:

 

 

anyone know what im doing wrong?

 

[meltingpoint]

if your url is- <a href="permissions_admin.php?account_action=add">

 

then on the page "permissions_admin.php" you will have to assign that to a variable to use it like so;

 

 $account_action = ($_GET['account_action']); 

 

This will assign account_action to $account_action and it will properly echo.

 

As to the $session_user - you have not specified in your script that you posted where that is coming across an not sure why it is in the url unless you are using cookies.