Session Mess

parth

Hello

I have a question on session.

file : 1.php

i have something like this

session_start();
$_session['name'] = "something";

file : 2.php

#in next page i have this
session_start();
$name = $_session['name'];
$name1 = "thing";

#I have a case where I had to do this
$name = $name1;

The problem I am having is my $_session value is changing to the value of $name1.I thought I had proper understanding of this topic.WHAT AM I MISSING HERE.

THANKS IN ADVANCE

maliX

correct me if i'm wrong, but your script works EXACTLY what you told her. $name is registered thrusession ($_SESSION), but on the other page you CHANGE HER VALUE "thing"

$name=$name1

to avoid this, use 'for' loop:

if ($name!=$name1) {/*do this */} else {/*do that */}

MrAlaska

Apparently my level of comprehension is much lower than maliX, or maybe I am all messed up, because I do not understand at all. Changing the value of $name should have NO EFFECT on the value of $_SESSION['name'].

parth

Sure it should not have anu change but I see it happening.

ANY MORE IDEAS

Thanks in advance

parth

I no more have the problem i addressed in my first post.

I guess the problem was:

I had $_session['name'] and a variable $name

some how $_session['name'] was reflecting the changes to $name vaiable.

this got solved when i changed my session $session['name'] to $session['user']

thanks for the help amd time........

bobthedog

If you have register globals on in PHP, then automagically all your Session variables become their own global variables with the correspondig session name...

i.e.

$session['name] == $name
$session['user'] == $user

etc etc

The same way that $HTTP_POST_VARS and $HTTP_GET_VARS get set in the same situation, i.e.

$HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] == $name
$HTTP_POST_VARS['user'] == $user

Pretty simple really 🙂