Session Values Are Disappearing???

Kenderized

Hello All,

Can anyone help me with this problem? I have a form lets call it formpage "A" the first thing on this page is session_start() it then posts its values to page "B" inside of "B" I am converting those $POST vars to $Session vars and everything runs fine except when the back button is pressed and formpage "A" is reloaded the entered values disappear, I have tried passing the SID back to formpage "A" in a link but this didnt work...any ideas??

Would I be better off using cookies instead if so does anyone know a quick and dirty way to convert $SESSION vars to $Cookie vars I have alot of them.

thanks

Kenderized

thmnetwork

does the 2nd page have session_start(); at the top as well?

Kenderized

yep they sure do all of the pages have it with the last page having also the session_destroy() at the very end. this is for a shopping cart it can be seen at www.healthysprinkles.com if you go there you will see the cart begins after clicking the "I just want to order link at the top.

Kenderized

thmnetwork

do you use session_register('varname'); to register which variables you want to save?

Kenderized

using session_register() for each var I found to be extremely cumbersome and unefficient considering the number of vars involved, instead I used a scheme like this

foreach ($_POST as $value => $key)
{

    $_SESSION[$value] = $_POST[$value];

            }

this takes all of my $POST vars and puts them into a $SESSION array of the same name, now I can access those vars from any page I need to rather than just in the page originally posted to, this has worked very well for me in that I now use the $_SESSION array values to do all of my formulas for shipping, tax, subtotal, and grand totals etc. and the appear and reappear after reload on all pages they are used its just that in the first page where orig quantities are entered "Formpage "A" " .

So I have to use $_POST on the first page because its a form, but is there a way to store them as cookie when they post, so that when the page is reloaded they are still there???

😕 🙁 😕

Kenderized

thmnetwork

you should try to find a way to use the session cookie instead, I think, because they might have cookies disabled, but the session cookie always sets.

Kenderized

that probably is what I need to do, but Im just not sure how do you have a code snippet that upon submission of posted vars writes the cookies?? or something akin to that.

Kenderized

thmnetwork

well I've always used session_register() and just set the variable equal to itself.