Establishing Global Variables

[Anon]

Ok I know I'm getting greedy but my momma told me you can never ask too many questions.

My issue is Global variables. I have a user log into my app, they choose a project and then proceed to various forms.

My question is: How do you select a variable in one form and then make it available to other forms.

1.) Assign value to a variable in a a file called globals.php and then include the file in all the other forms?

2.) Create a function that assigns value to the variable and include that file in other files?

I've tried it both ways and not got the desired result. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers :-)

[Anon]

If you are setting a variable based on the logon

session_start(); // put in a include file so it's loaded in each page...

and use the...
session_register($variable);
... to pass the variable to any page you want

or

<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=variable VALUE=$value>

or

set a cookie...

If you know the variable
put it in a include file and require_once('filename.php');

define("VARIABLE1","value1");
define("VARIABLE2","value2");

using define() will keep you from having to define global vars in your functions.

CT