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hello

i'm trying to create a page where a user enters a name and password into the database. After inserting the users name is passed as a session variable to a thankyou page. I've got no problems passing a session variable from a standard form (i.e not an insert record) but when i try and retrieve the session variable after inserting these user details nothing appears.

here's hoping someone has the answer.

thanks

mat

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I realise now that not sending any code is a bit of a mistake, the problem still remains that when i add seesion start to the top of the page i get the following error

 

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/fhlinux195/m/matthewtennant.com/user/htdocs/newscomment.php:3) in /home/fhlinux195/m/matthewtennant.com/user/htdocs/newscomment.php on line 61

 

a username does get added to my database via a hidden field as required

 

is there a problem with session variable when iserting fields in dreamweaver?

 

here comes the reams of code

 

line 61 is

 

header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));

 

thanks

 

<?php

session_start(); ?>

<?php require_once('Connections/mattyboy.php'); ?>

<?php

$colname_Recordset1 = "1";

if (isset($_GET['recordID'])) {

$colname_Recordset1 = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_GET['recordID'] : addslashes($_GET['recordID']);

}

mysql_select_db($database_mattyboy, $mattyboy);

$query_Recordset1 = sprintf("SELECT * FROM studentvillagenews WHERE number = %s", $colname_Recordset1);

$Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_Recordset1, $mattyboy) or die(mysql_error());

$row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1);

$totalRows_Recordset1 = mysql_num_rows($Recordset1);

?>

<?php require_once('Connections/mattyboy.php'); ?>

<?php

function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")

{

$theValue = (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? addslashes($theValue) : $theValue;

 

switch ($theType) {

case "text":

$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";

break;

case "long":

case "int":

$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";

break;

case "double":

$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL";

break;

case "date":

$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";

break;

case "defined":

$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;

break;

}

return $theValue;

}

 

$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {

$editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);

}

 

if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {

$insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO studentvillagenewscomment (numcat, comment, username) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)",

GetSQLValueString($_POST['numcat'], "int"),

GetSQLValueString($_POST['comment'], "text"),

GetSQLValueString($_POST['username'], "text"));

 

mysql_select_db($database_mattyboy, $mattyboy);

$Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $mattyboy) or die(mysql_error());

 

$insertGoTo = "news.php";

if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {

$insertGoTo .= (strpos($insertGoTo, '?')) ? "&" : "?";

$insertGoTo .= $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

}

header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));

}

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

 

<body>

<p> </p>

 

<form method="post" name="form1" action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>">

<table align="center">

<tr valign="baseline">

<td nowrap align="right" valign="top">Comment:</td>

<td><textarea name="comment" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>

</td>

</tr>

<tr valign="baseline">

<td nowrap align="right" valign="top"> </td>

<td> </td>

</tr>

<tr valign="baseline">

<td nowrap align="right"> </td>

<td><input type="submit" value="Insert record"></td>

</tr>

</table>

<input type="hidden" name="numcat" value="<?php echo $row_Recordset1['number']; ?>">

<input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1">

<input name="username" type="hidden" id="username" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['surname']; ?>">

</form>

<p> </p>

</body>

</html>

<?php

mysql_free_result($Recordset1);

?>

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Hi there you have to put the header's before any output to the browsers even space should not be there in ur code

so you have to write <?php session_start()?>

in the very first line of ur code page and there should not be any sapce before this line

try this out this might fix ur problem

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