session problems

da_marek

hi!
i have a simple problem with multiple forms. i want to pass variables from one form to another and then send all that to e-mail. i don't want to use cookies. so the only way to do that is with sessions, right?
i dont know nothing about sessions so i have found very simple tutorial on phpfreaks and i started to code but it wont work!
this is 1st page:

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="page2.php"> 
Enter your Name: <input type="text" name="name"> 
<input type="SUBMIT" value="Submit"> 
</FORM>

and this is second:

<?php 
session_start(); 
header("Cache-control: private");

echo "<strong>Step 2 - Register Session </strong><br />"; 

session_register('name'); 

$_SESSION['name'] = $_POST['name'];
?> 

Welcome to my website <strong><? echo $_SESSION['name']; ?></strong>!<br /> 
Let's see what happens on the <a href="page3.php">next page.</a><br /><br />

when i type 'marek' for my name all i get on second page is:

Step 2 - Register Session
Welcome to my website !
Let's see what happens on the next page.

🙁
why is this happening? this is very simple but i really cant figure out whats wrong! im new in this session thing and maybe im doing something very stupid, so please help!
i have to pass variables to several different pages but if i cant figure out this simple problem then i will not be able to do complicated things.

Dedix

You can use $_SESSION OR session_register() not both.

So remove the line session_register('name'); from your code and see what happens.

stolzyboy

or you can use hidden input fields

da_marek

thanks dedix! it works just fine now! i hope the rest of coding will not be so hard 🙂🙂🙂🙂

da_marek

hmm..
another 'the newbiest of the newbies' question:
so, i have that first page with the form that redirects to second page where is second form. i pass all variables from first to second page and that works fine. the method (code on second page) is:

<?php 
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private");

session_register('f-charter');

$_SESSION['f-charter'] = $_POST['max_cijena'];
$_SESSION['f-charter'] = $_POST['skiper'];
$_SESSION['f-charter'] = $_POST['hostesa'];
// and so on...
?>

now, on that second page i have another form with different fields (personal information). and when user submits that second form i should receive email with all inputs (from first and second page).

the problem is that i dont know to pass all variables (from both pages) to that third page that emails all stuff... how to call variables from fisrt page?

rIkLuNd

use hidden fields in the second form, which stores the values from the first form...

da_marek

ok, now it works. but just one more question:
how to deal with arrays? i have some checkboxes in form and i want to put in that hidden field value that is checked. this is the error i get:

[FONT=times new roman]Parse error: parse error, expecting T_STRING' orT_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in /home/sites/site76/web/proba/f-charter_osobni_hr.php on line 118[/FONT]
line 118 is

<input type='hidden' name='dodatci' value='$dodatci'>

and 'dodatci' are checkboxes from form with different values

hope you understood my problem?

rIkLuNd

I would have done like this:

echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"dodatci\" value=\"" . $dodatci . "\">";

da_marek

thanks but i manage to do it with two values:
first checkbox is 'dodatci1' and second is 'dodatci2'. so now i have

<input type='hidden' name='dodatci1' value='$dodatci1'>
<input type='hidden' name='dodatci1' value='$dodatci2'>

and this works just fine. thanks anyway!
till next time...

rIkLuNd

echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"dodatci1\" value=\"" . $dodatci1 . "\">";
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"dodatci2\" value=\"" . $dodatci2 . "\">";

da_marek

well yes, thats the same thing... i forgot to say that i have

<?php
echo "
<input type='hidden' name='dodatci1' value='$dodatci1'>
<input type='hidden' name='dodatci2' value='$dodatci2'>
";
?>

soon i'll be back 🙂

rIkLuNd

oh, sorry... didn't know that... try to use $POST['dodatci1'] and $POST['dodatci2']...

da_marek

thank you very much for your help but i solved my problem 🙂🙂🙂 but dont think that these posts arent useful!
thanks a lot again!