Dropdown menu with links

[Anon]

I have created a dropdown menu using basic html, with entries like:-

echo "<option value = 'sport-details.php'";
echo ">Sport</option>";

That's OK, the items in the menu link to the page indicated.

However, I am finding that the session variable is no longer present on the page linked to. In other words I have lost my session and the session variables that go with it.

This is a nice easy way to link to a page, compact on the screen and uses very little code -- bytes --. I have tried adding arguements to the line with ?myvar=<?$myvar?>, but these don't work either.

Any ideas on how to use a dropdown menu with links to another page and retain the session?

Paul

[inspire]

I dont really wanna point out the obvious but you are calling the session_start() function on your new page?

sport-details.php

<?
session_start();

your code here

?>

That should give you your session variable

Cheers

John

[Anon]

Actually that was a very sensible reply. I have been PHpeeing for three months and have done all kinds of stupid things, particularly commas where they shouldn't be, and that would have been an easy mistake to make. However I do have the session start bit in the program, and it works OK from normal links, but not from these dropdown links.

Thhanks for the comment anyway.

Paul