[SOLVED] echoing session variables

[BarneyJoe]

This kind of follows on from another question, but am working backwards, and trying to simply echo some contents from a session.

 

So at the top of my page I have :

 

<?php
session_start();
?>

 

And, using dreamweaver, have my session variable all looking present and correct in the applications > bindings panel.

 

So I presumed all I need to do to echo any of these variables is :

 

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

 

..except nothing is displaying.....?

[dymon]

Hi,

so as the session variable is an array, try using:

 

<?php
   print_r ($_SESSION);
?>

 

In this way you will see the full content of the session variable.

 

[Barand]

Try putting the var inside curlies.

 

echo {$_SESSION['username']};

[BarneyJoe]

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

What I did in the end was look at the profile page - it uses a recordset, and then displays the email from the matching logged in user.

 

So i used the same recordset, and it's doing what i want now - although I'm still not sure exactly why the session variables are available in that way, but won't simply display using echo. (it didn't like the curlies.)