my first shot at sessions

Anon

I finally decided to try my hand at sessions. Like i figured, it didnt work. What I was hoping for is that after a user (me to test it) logged in, it would save the username, $username for the session. here is the code i used related to the session stuff....

<some login script stuff>
session_start;
session_register($username);

on the next page, i simply want it to say at the top
echo "thanks for stopping again $username";
so here was the code for that one
<usual starting stuff>

session_start;
echo "thanks for comming back $username";

all I get back is

thanks for comming back

is there something i'm missing

Anon

I believe that should be:

session_start();

Anon

where can i find a tutorial or sessions that would have examples?

Anon

Try:

session_register("username";

on page 1

and:

session_start();

on page 2

Anon

I liked Julie Meloni's "PHP Fast & Easy Web Development."

I has one chapter on sessions, and a preceding chapter on cookies, which helps in a small way with understanding sessions.

There may be better ones out there, dunno. I don't know of any tutorials that just cover sessions, as you couldn't hardly make a whole book out of this topic.