display logged in username

[eerikk2]

I have an account login form so users can log into my website. What i want to do is show like "Welcome ______________. You are logged in.

 

I head about putting the name in a session but i am unaware of how to go about doing this.

[frobak]

once your happy with the users login details, add the username to global variable:

 

$_SESSION['username'] = $username;

 

and then display it as you would any other variable:

 

<?php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?>

 

Any good to ya?

[prakash911]

hey i am also trying to do something like this, but i want to display the username of the logged in user at the top of my navigation bar on every page and if the user decides to log out the navigation bar no longer would display the username. how about do i do this. i am fairly new to php so a clear explanation would be appreciated.

[eerikk2]

thank you very much that helped greatly.

 

as for displaying it make a new div tag and put <?=$_SESSION['username']?> as the content to display the username. if no user is logged in nothing will be displayed

 

 

and one other quick question:

I am having it able for users to upload data to a mysql database. how would i store their username in the users column.

I have this as my sql statement

$sql = "INSERT INTO Species(
							user
							)
VALUES (
		'$_SESSION[username];'
		)";

 

however, nothin is being stored, the column is empty