tecmeister Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Im having trouble displaying the username on every page. I get it on the first page. But that is it. This is the code that im using of the page you enter your username: <form method="post" action="q1.php"> <input type="text" name="username" /> <input type="submit" value="Enter" /> </form> This second page: <?php $username = $_REQUEST['username']; echo $username; ?> I use the same code on the other pages but it will not display the username. Thanks for your help. tecmeister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Store it in a session variable: $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; Remember to run session_start(); before that and before outputting anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecmeister Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 I have entered the $_SESSION. I seem to be have the same problem. This is the code of the first question: <?php session_start(); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <div style="z-index: 101; position: absolute; background-image: url(../icon/score_user.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; left: 251px; width: 151px; height: 101px; top: 26px;"> <div style="z-index: 101; position: absolute; width: 89px; height: 25px; left: 36px; top: 22px;"> <?php $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; echo $_SESSION['username']; ?> </div> <div style="z-index: 101; position: absolute; top: 53px; width: 39px; left: 76px;"> <?php $_SESSION['score'] = 0; echo $score; ?> </div> </div> <div style="z-index: 300; position: absolute; left: 460px; width: 334px; height: 203px; top: 70px;"> Which State in America was the Titanic Heading to? </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <form method="post" action="q2.php"> <table width="133" align="center"> <tr> <td width="112"> Florida </td> <td> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="false" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> New York </td> <td> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="true" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Chicago </td> <td> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="false" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> L.A </td> <td> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="false" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </td></tr> </table> </form> </table> </div> </body> </html> Second question page: <?php session_start(); if ($_POST['answer'] == "true") $_SESSION['score'] += 2; else $_SESSION['score']--; ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <div style="z-index: 101; position: absolute; background-image: url(../icon/score_user.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; left: 251px; width: 151px; height: 101px; top: 26px;"> <div style="z-index: 101; position: absolute; width: 89px; height: 25px; left: 36px; top: 22px;"> <?php $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; echo $_SESSION['username']; ?> </div> <div style="z-index: 101; position: absolute; top: 53px; width: 39px; left: 76px; height: 16px;"> <?php echo $_SESSION['score']; ?> </div> </div> <div style="z-index: 300; position: absolute; left: 460px; width: 308px; height: 203px; top: 70px;"> Which planet is closest to the sun? <form method="post" action="q3.php"> <table width="133" align="center"> <tr> <td width="112">Mercury</td> <td> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="true" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Saturn</td> <td> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="false" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mars</td> <td> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="false" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Jupitor</td> <td><input type="radio" name="answer" value="false" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </td></tr> </table> </form> </table> </div> </body> </html> Thanks for your help guru. tecmeister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniflare Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 try removing this line in the second and subsequent question pages: "$_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username'];" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecmeister Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 If i remove that then the username will not display at all. I trying to make the username display on every page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniflare Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 ok for quick fix add a hidden input field in every page eg: <input type="hidden" name="username" value="<?php echo($_POST['username']); ?>"> Then you will not need sessions. ------------- This however is crude. I believe your session problem is caused by the fact that your not passing your session_id to each subsequent page, (and if you were this code: <?php $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; echo $_SESSION['username']; ?> this would wipe it clean unless the page before had a username field as well. you would only need echo $_SESSION['username']; for ever page AFTER the page you enter your username. ------ To continue using sessions, Change the <Form> Tag of all question pages From: <form method="post" action="q2.php"> to <form method="post" action="q2.php?<?php echo(SID); ?>"> -- then in all question pages AFTER Question Page _ONE_, get rid of this line: $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; -------------- For more information on session usage see http://uk2 dot php dot net/function.session-start hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecmeister Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 Yes that works. Thankyou so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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