session

Anon

I want to create a session with certian value (let it be login name) and with out using cookies i.e on the server and want to retrieve its value on another page. I have seen php manual (from php.net) but it haven't helped me much. Can somebody give me an example. One to create (using variable $login) and other of retrieving its value.

pmanivannan

Hi,

Good. You cann't use the session functionality in PHP version 3. You have to use the PHPLIB along with your PHP3. Then only you can use sessions. The PHPLIB session functionality is DataBase oriented.
You can make use of PHP version 4 session functions which is not DataBase oriented. But you cann't retrieve the values without creating cookies in server.

what could be your problem, if you use cookies in the server ?

Hope you are aware of hidden? you can pass the values by hidden from one page to next page.

Thanks.

Anon

thanks but can you give me an example while using server side cookies and with php4 sytex?????

Anon

Try this:

<?php
// starts or continues the session
session_start();

// set the value of a variable
// (you could just as easily grab it from
// form input or whatever)
$username = "somebaldguy";

// register the username to the session
session_register('username');
?>

...then on another page...

<?php
// starts or continues the session
session_start();

// echo out the value of $username
echo "$username";
?>

Now admittedly, this is a rather useless example, but it shows how to register a session variable, and then pull it back out, which is what you are looking for, I think (I could be wrong though =) )

-b3

Anon

Thank you guys for helping me!