[SOLVED] Loop through array and create variable session variable names

[mwstewart]

Hello guys & girls,

                      As part of my user authentication class I've written a method that sets session variables. I pass an array to the function by reference which contains elements populated with information from the users table in the DB (name, street, country etc)

 

At the moment the function looks like this:

 

/* Set the session variables for easy access to user data */
function _setSessionData(&$userData) { 
$_SESSION['loggedOn'] = true; // Logged on

		$_SESSION['userID'] = $userData['UserID'];
		$_SESSION['username'] = $userData['UserName'];
		$_SESSION['password'] = $userData['Password'];
		$_SESSION['firstName'] = $userData['FirstName'];
		$_SESSION['surname'] = $userData['Surname'];
		$_SESSION['email'] = $userData['Email'];
		$_SESSION['street'] = $userData['Street'];
		$_SESSION['city'] = $userData['City'];

		return true;
	}

 

What I'm wondering is if it is possible to loop through the $userData array, and dynamically name and populate the session variables rather than listing them all and assigning like I have?

 

Cheers,

Mark

[kenrbnsn]

Yes, use a foreach loop:

<?php
foreach($userData as $key => $value)
   $_SESSION[$key] = $value;
?>

 

Ken

[mwstewart]

Ken, that's great. Thank you.

 

Mark