session_start

[cfobare]

I'm trying to have my session continue from my login to home page and follow on pages. This is my login page:   http://www.sagginevo.com/EZFurnish/index.php .... I would like the username carry onto the following pages. The Email: Chris Password: 123  Please help. The

[cyberRobot]

It sounds like you are using $_SESSION variables. Is the session_start() function being placed at the top of all the scripts that need access to those variables?

[Muddy_Funster]

why in the name of <insert word(s) here> would you want to carry password info in plaintext through a session ??

[cfobare]

I would like to carry the username not the password to the following pages. I have 

 

<?php
session_start();   // Store Session Data   
$_SESSION['login_user'] = $username; // Initializing Session with value of PHP Variable   
echo $_SESSION['login_user'];   
?>

at the top of the page and

 

<div id="profile">   
<b id="welcome">Welcome : <i><?php echo $login_user; ?></i></b>   
<b id="logout"><a href="logout.php">Log Out</a></b>
</div>

 

in the body of the HTML

[gizmola]

Do you understand how to get the values from the POST data?

 

The code you provided is missing a lot of things required to actually make this work. 

[cfobare]

The code I used is all located at http://www.formget.com/login-form-in-php/ ....  I'm able to validate the user name and password form my db and be directed to my home page. 

[gizmola]

So -- what isn't working then?

[Tom10]

<?php
session_start();   // Store Session Data   
$_SESSION['login_user'] = $username; // Initializing Session with value of PHP Variable   
echo $_SESSION['login_user'];   
?>

session_start doesn't store session data it starts the session, the $_SESSION function stores session data.

By the looks of it you are trying to store the username on login and echo it into the index page?

Try this:

 

login

<?php

session_start(); //Start session

//This is only an example you store the session data when you are logging in

if($count->rowCount > 0)
{

//Store session data

$_SESSION['username'] = $username;

}

?>

index

<?php

session_start();

if(isset($_SESSION['username']))
{

} else {

echo "Couldn't set session!";

}

?>

Then you can use

<?php echo $username; ?>

[Muddy_Funster]

since we have taken a pedantic turn here: $_SESSION isn't a function, it's a superglobal variable array.  also, you should check for if(!isset()) rather than if(isset()) as the latter can still throw a "Warning: <xxx> is undefined" in the event that the thing you are checking isn't actually set (at least in some older versions of PHP, dont know about the more recent versions because I stopped doing it...).