passion values into session_register

[LordRogaine]

Eureka!!!!!!!! I finally understand

session_start();
$A = "Hello World";
session_register($A);

echo "$A";
and this will show- Hello World.

This I have no problem with. My problem now is when I try to pass a value from an HTML form using a php script to my session_register it doesn't seem to work.

EXAMPLE:
$query = "insert into $table (username) values ('$username)";
$A= "$username";
session_register($A);

I know that the script to inset the data into my database is working because the data appears in there.

I believe this is how it should work. Am I completely wrong? It seems the value doesn't register with the session_register(). What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

[leatherback]

Hm, could it be a typo?

How about:

$A= $username;
session_register($A);

Oh, and.. In the insert-query there is a quote too many, I think..

[bretticus]

Well, I think you might be doing this backwards a bit ;-)

In fact, I woudl never use session_register for security resons (won't go into that). Instead, use the superglobals to set and get values from the session variable.

On every page, just throw in session_start() before writing any headers.

Then, if you want to set a session variable in one script, use:

$_SESSION["my_variable"] = "some value";

So, in another page load when you want to use that variable again for a SQL query:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE some_field = '" . $_SESSION["my_variable"] . "'";

[LordRogaine]

thanks toi everyone fopr the help. It is greatly appreciated