Function help, urgent!!

Anon

Hello,

I've posted this before but have gotten no replies- it is urgent that I solve this..

I have a page on which one can add products to the database. At the begining I have an if statement which will display either a blank form or input the results into the database depending on whether the user has filled out the form & clicked on Submit or not.

This all worked fine and dandy until I added the session functions. So now all it does is when a user clicks submit, it displays the blank form as opposed to entering the data into the database.

I've tried several methods of trying to make it so that the page actually acknowledges the variables, but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Anjee.

frewuill

ok can you post some example code? how are you retrieving data from session? how are you storing data on session? how are you inserting data on DB?

Anon

session_start();
if (session_is_registered($username) && session_is_registered($password)) {

$footer = \"include/links.html\";

if (!$newcat) { # has user-x already filled out the form?
newprod();
include($footer);
} else {
applyadd($newprod,$newcat,$cat_id,$newcatname1,$newcatname2,$newcat_id,$catname);
include($footer);
}

} else {
echo \"Unauthorized. Please <a href=\\"index.php\\">login</a>.</p>\n\";
}

Both user defined functions, newprod() and applyadd() are defined in the same page. newprod() displays a form to fill out. applyadd() takes the information from the newprod()\'s method=POST, has it\'s way with it and inserts it into the mysql database. if you want me to get more specific, I am unable to see what more I can tell you about how I\'m inserting the data into the database... shrug.

frewuill

I guess $newcat has no value, if it's the case... how is $newcat set? if it's a post or get var may be (based upon your php.ini) you should use $HTTP_POST_VARS["newcat"] or $HTTP_GET_VARS["newcat"].

Did you set properly session vars like $username and $password.

I hope this helps.

Anon

they ARE properly set.
everything works fine without session handling, as soon as i incorperate it, BOOM. it blows up.

$newcat is one of the fields in the form, if the user pressed submit, this would have a value, if not, it won't.

reagent

I thought this was already solved.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=126361&thread=126279

Anon

Apparently not, grumbles and frowns ...

I've even resorted to coding a very simple-type page with session handling & user defined functions and it still doesn't work that way...

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Anon

Oh... Sorry

That was a different problem... In that thread I kept getting errors saying that my functions weren't defined... I fixed that

Now another problem creeped up...hehe.

reagent

i would take a look at this code:

session_start();
if (session_is_registered($username) && session_is_registered($password))

You are NOT calling these functions correctly. it should be

session_start();
if (session_is_registered("username") && session_is_registered("password"))

note the quotes around the variable names and the lack of a '$' character

refer to
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-is-registered.php

Anon

i said that has been fixed..
my new problem is:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=127244&loc=0&thread=127244

reagent

In the original exchange we had, you mentioned that this had been fixed, however, when you posted the code on here, that line was still included.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=127253&thread=127244

session_start();
if (session_is_registered($username) && session_is_registered($password)) {

$footer = \"include/links.html\";

if (!$newcat) { # has user-x already filled out the form?
newprod();
include($footer);
} else {
applyadd($newprod,$newcat,$cat_id,$newcatname1,$newcatname2,$newcat_id,$catname);
include($footer);
}

} else {
echo \"Unauthorized. Please <a href=\\"index.php\\">login</a>.</p>\n\";
}

maybe you posted the wrong code?

Anon

I posted the right code.

I haven't changed the session_is_registered(<b>$</b>blah) yet, because that part is sort of working for now, and i am concentrating on a much yuckier problem.

i will however change them when i get to it. and i do thank you for your help, but for now i'm trying to concentrate on this pesky little thing.. :p

frewuill

anyway i insist, you should use $newcat = $HTTP_POST_VARS["newcat"] instead of only $newcat.

reagent

well, from your explanation:
"This all worked fine and dandy until I added the session functions. So now all it does is when a user clicks submit, it displays the blank form as opposed to entering the data into the database. "

which leads me to believe that the SESSION code was the problem. that condition will always evaluate to false, so it will skip the code you want it to execute..