$_SESSION question:

[tcorbeil]

Is there a maximum amount of variables you can stack into a session array?

 

I have this:

 

$_SESSION['count'] = $first;

$_SESSION['blah'] = $first;

 

echo $_SESSION['blah']."--";

echo $_SESSION['count'];

 

the result is always the same, $_SESSION['count'] = $first; seems to take but the second does not.. I do have several other session values.. just wondering if I reched my limit??  I have tried everything I could think of but no go..

 

T.

[tcorbeil]

ok, in testing, I had this line before any of the code above..

 

$_SESSION['1'] = "test";

 

it appears that a session aray cannot be numbers??

 

T

[kenrbnsn]

Do you have "session_start()" at the beginning of your code?

 

Ken

[suzzane2020]

yes it cannot be.

had the same issue before

it does'nt recognize those sessions

[trq]

'1' is a string because of the quotes, but yes, you are correct. the $_SESSION array is associative.

 

What exactly is the problem?

[tcorbeil]

well here goes:

 

yes i do have the Session start..

 

I was trying to use a counter to load a session array..

 

while ($i < $num) {

 

..some code assigning a value to $first...

 

$_SESSION[$i] = $first;

$_SESSION['blah'] = $first; // for troubleshooting I added a this line..

$_SESSION['count2'] = $i;

 

echo $_SESSION['blah']."--";

echo $_SESSION['count2'];

}

on echo, $_SESSION['count2'] = $i; always took so i rem'd out the $_SESSION[$i] = $first; line and it seemed to work.. of course, $i being a counter, I guess this is not acceptable..

 

Any ways around this? I can't use a hardwired string to load the session array as the values will change all the time..

 

 

[kenrbnsn]

You can change

<?php
$_SESSION[$i] = $first;
?>

to

<?php
$_SESSION['x'.$i] = $first;
?>

which makes the index a string.

 

Ken

[tcorbeil]

kenrbnsm, that is brilliant! -Thank you!

 

T.