Passing Variable to other PHP pages

Anon

Hello people

I am very new with PHP and despite having searched for a solution in several of the best books on PHP I can not find an easy solution to this problem.

I have a little form at the start or my web page that asks the users to input several pieces of info (say $NAME, $EMAIL,...) and I want to pass this vaiables to all my other pages.
For example in another page I want to use the vaiable $NAME or $EMAIL in another one.
I tried using cookies but it did not work.
Can anyone suggest a solutin.
Please keep in mind that I know very little about PHP so be generous in explanation.
Thanks a bunch in adnavce.
Sam

Anon

Passing variables can be very easy. Here is an example of the most easy way to do it. Create a file http://yourserver/page1.php and inside it put a link to http://yourserver/page2.php?name=chris then inside the page2.php, write this code:

<?php print "The value of name is $name"; ?>

If I wanted to pass on name and favorite color I might make a linke to page2.php that looked like: http://yourserver/page2.php?name=chris&favcolor=blue and write inside page2.php:

<?php print "Your name is $name and your favorite color is $favcolor"; ?>

Just keep adding on &varname=varvalue in the links to pass on more variables.

-Chris

Anon

If you can not use cookies, then use session.

Look under http://php.net/session_start

Anon

i tried passing the session variables to the next page using header();
I have a homepage which on submit checks for valid user and redirects to another page.
If valid user is store his name in an session
which i am not able to do?
It says session cache limiter error..
but i have set cache to no in php.inc file
Please help

Anon

Hi guys,

I have a similar problem. Here is my "test.php" file:

<body>
<form action="test_process.php" method="post" name="form1">
<p>Email:
<input name="email" type="text">
</p>
<p>Password:
<input name="password" type="text" id="password">
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>
</body>

And here is my "test.process.php" file:

<body>
<?
echo "<p>$email</p>";
echo "<p>$password</p>";
?>
</body>

When I enter stuff in test.php file and submit, I get nothing when submitted. Why not?

Please help..
Al