Can't figure out sessions

wylim

I am haveing a problem with sessions. I am trying to use them to log my username and password along with a few other items used for the website when you log in. It sets the information in the session just fine but I can't seem to call on the information to use it. What can I do?

$username=$HTTP_POST_VARS["username"];
$password=$HTTP_POST_VARS["password"];

if (!$PHPSESSID) {
if ((!$username) || (!$password)) {
header("Location: http://65.26.138.33/index.php");
exit;
}
} else {
session_start();
session_register("$username");
session_register("$password");
session_register("yes");
}

I can't get my script to get past this point it just continues to send me to my home page any help would be greatly appreciated.

wylim

I really need some help with this and any that someone could offer would be great. I'm sorry if my question doesn't give you enough information please post a question and I will try my best to answer it.

ednark

you should be using the $SESSION array instead of the session_something() function suite. however if you are an environment where you are forced to use sessin then

session_register takes a string, that is the name of a variable, not the variable itself.

for :

$myvar = 'value';

this is wrong:

session_register($myvar);

this is correct:

session_register('myvar');

wylim

Just wanted to say thank you for the help. It looks like everything is working great. Thank you.