Session varibles

[Anon]

Hello,

I am having a problem with session variables. I want to make $name and $password session variables inorder for the browser to recognize them when converting to the next page and also retrieve the correct info from the database. Can you help me with it?? Whats wrong with this??

<? $name = session_name ("name"); ?>
<? $password = session_name ("password"); ?>

[Anon]

session_name() function set the name of the session variable, default is 'SID'

This name is used when setting a cookie or passing the session ID through the URL.

So your code above is not setting any variables.

First you must start the session with

session_start();

Then to register a variable you would do:

session_register("myvar");

Note: myvar is the name of the variable.

Example:

$myvar = "billybob";
session_register("myvar");

DO NOT do
session_register($myvar);

this will not work.

Once you register a session variable you can retrieve it through

$HTTP_SESSION_VARS

Example:

echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['myvar'];

would print: billybob

Hope this helps.