Can't Extract Array from Session Variable!

[mmtalon]

I read the two mulitdimensional post below, however I could not draw a conclusion from them.
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I varified that the array is being stored properly by a session dump:

[code]
foreach ( $_SESSION as $key => $key_value )

{ print "<li> $key = $key_value\n"; }
[/code]

dump result: X = Array - Where X is the name of my array($count).

An example of my code is below. I tried to retrieving the array using the two foreach construct below. I must be doing something wrong. Please help.

[code]
session_start();

$_SESSION['count']; // tried session var init here
$_SESSION['count'] = array(); // tried session array init here

$v[0] = 489; $v[1] = 883; $v[2]= 350; $v[3] = 555;

for ($counter=0; $counter < 4; $counter++)
{ $count[$counter] = $v[$counter]; }

// this code result in successful output
echo "count_0: " . $count[0];
echo "<p>count_1: $count[1]\n\r</p>";
echo "<p>count_2: $count[2]\n\r</p>";
echo "<p>count_3: $count[3]\n\r</p>";

$trans = $_SESSION['count'];

// no extraction results from the following code:
foreach ($trans[] as $key => $value )
{ echo "<p> $key = $value\n</p>"; }

foreach($_SESSION['count'][] as $var) {
echo "this is a new count:". $var;
}

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[Jessica]

foreach($_SESSION['count'] as $var) {
echo "this is a new count:". $var;
}

Try taking off that second []

[mmtalon]

Still not working with that change. I'm looking for other examples now.

[Jessica]

Wait you never actually put anything in the session.
before this:
[code]foreach($_SESSION['count'] as $var) {
    echo "this is a new count:". $var;
}[/code]

you need to do something like $_SESSION['count'] = $count.

That's why $_SESSION['count'] is empty.

[mmtalon]

Thank you. I'm taking a look at that right now.

[mmtalon]

I thought this code was initializing the array:

for ($counter=0; $counter < 4; $counter++)
{ $count[$counter] = $v[$counter]; }

[mmtalon]

I thought wrong. The code worked after using your suggestion. Thank you jesirose so much for your help.

[mmtalon]

To clarify, I thought that the array was a reference of the session variable when you create the session using the name of the particular variable. So I really learned something from you that is important to know. Thanks again!