sessions, includes, variables -- Oh. my!

[sgtpepper]

I am sure by now, some of you have seen some of previous posts. I want to thank everyone for helping a beginner with all this.

Too summarize: I have been working on two scripts.

1) A simple form that passes variables to a second form
2) The second form queries the DB and displays the results. It also has pagination.

I finally got everything working.....correctly. I had been treating these files seperatly...a search page and a results page.

Well, now that everything is working....I wanted to simply use an include statement to place my search page above the results.

Well, this is where my sessions are now the problem.

See, this is how I have setup the sessions in my search form.

<?
session_start();
session_unset();
session_register("myvariable")
?>

I am doing this, so if someone uses the form, and wishes to use the form a second time the unset removes the previous session.

The problem is now when I include this page to my main script...I believe the session gets destroyed.

Isnt that how the include would work.....

So, my question is.....how can I get around this?

[tha_mink]

Session_unset() doesn't destroy the session, it merely clears the assigned varibales. It shouldn't kill the session, so maybe what's happening to you is that the session_id isn't getting passed. It's set with a cookie on the browser and if the browser doesn't accept cookies, then it SHOULD pass it via the $_GET variable. Also, session_register() doesn't assign a value to a variable, it just creates the variable. So you may need to assign "myvariable" a "myvalue" or whatever. Post code if you're still having trouble.

[sgtpepper]

Well, I actually to not have to have the form in a seperate file....what about putting the form code in the script that runs the query. Would that work?

[kevinsequeira]

could u post ure code

reg
kevin

[sgtpepper]

Sure,

Here is the form

<?
session_start();
session_unset();
session_register("selecttown")
?>



<form action="newcode.php" method="POST">
<table border="0" width="63%" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
  <tr>
    <td width="100%">
      <table border="0" width="100%">

   <tr>
      <td width="20%" bgcolor="#FFFF99" align="center"><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Town</font></strong></td>
      <td width="20%" bgcolor="#FFFF99" align="center"><strong>
    <font face="Tahoma" size="2">Price Range</font></strong></td>
      <td width="20%" bgcolor="#FFFF99" align="center"><strong>
    <font face="Tahoma" size="2">Bed Rooms</font></strong></td>
      <td width="20%" bgcolor="#FFFF99" align="center"><strong>
    <font face="Tahoma" size="2">Baths Rooms</font></strong></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="20%">

<select size="7" name="selecttown" multiple>
<option value="Acworth NH">Acworth, NH</option>
<option value="Charlestown NH">Charlestown, NH</option>
<option value="Claremont NH" selected>Claremont, NH</option>
<option value="Croydon NH">Croydon, NH</option>
<option value="Langdon NH">Langdon, NH</option>
<option value="Lempster NH">Lempster, NH</option>
<option value="Newport NH">Newport, NH</option>
<option value="Unity NH">Unity, NH</option>
<option value="Woodstock VT">Woodstock, VT</option>
        </select></td>
<td width="20%"> 
Enter your lowest price 
$<input type="text" name="lowprice" size="20" value="0">
Enter your highest price 
$<input type="text" name="highprice" size="20" value="300000">
    </select>


</td>
 <td width="20%">

<input type="radio" value="%" name="bedroomsel" checked><font face="Courier">Any<br>
          <input type="radio" value="1" name="bedroomsel"">1<br>
          <input type="radio" value="2" name="bedroomsel"">2<br>
          <input type="radio" value="3" name="bedroomsel"">3</font></td>
          <td width="20%">
          <input type="radio" value="%" name="bathselect"><font face="Courier">Any<br>
          <input type="radio" value="1" name="bathselect" checked>1<br>
          <input type="radio" value="2" name="bathselect">2</font></td>

    </tr>
  </table>
    <p align="center"><input type="submit"><input type="reset"></p>
  </form>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>