Echoing Usernames

[Anon]

hey,
I am opening a site which will have a members section, I have the login script,

but what i want to do is echo the user name, I am not sure wat i need to do for this,

The user name is stored into a cookie as they login so the username is stored in the cookie as "username" (with the value of "username" as there name)

wat can i use to echo there sn then?

[[deleted]]

manuals are such fun.

echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['name_of_cookie'];

[Anon]

hmm, it didn't work 🙁 is there another way?

[[deleted]]

Are you sure the cookie was set at all?

[Anon]

yes, < ? echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['name']; ? > is wat i used (with out the spaces between "< ?" what exactly do i need to put

[[deleted]]

I asked: are you sure that the username is stored as a cookie?

You cannot print a cookie if it was not set properly. Read the PHP manual about cookies just in case.

[Anon]

what manual?

[Anon]

the really, really useful one at:

php.net

[Anon]

that is acctualy useless!

[[deleted]]

Uhm... then you are on your own.