displaying a session value

[gaz]

I am trying to make a page that displays a users name after they have logged in. The code i am using for that is...

<? php echo $_SESSION['User']; ?>

on the login page the code that sets the value of the session is...

session_start();
if (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['user_name'])) {$User = $HTTP_POST_VARS['user_name'];
session_register("User"); }

The page that is meant to display the user's username displays nothing. Can anyone help?

[Pittperson]

Try just

echo "$User";

[gaz]

thanks for the reply.

i tried

echo "$User";

but it still displays nothing

[Pittperson]

do you have session_start(); on the page that you are tying to display the information?

[gaz]

yeah, i have that,