Help with Sessions again..

JOV17

I started a thread yesterday asking how to turn the session into a variable then to save it to a field in a table

now I need to know how to retrive it and the other information that relates to it when a user logs in.

Am I being clear here?

Thanks in advance!

tsinka

I didn't read your other thread but the following example worked for me:

<?PHP
    session_start();
    $_SESSION["A"] = "AAA";
    $_SESSION["B"] = array("A","B","C");
    $strSerialized = serialize($_SESSION);

// now save $strSerialized in the database
?>

On another page:

<?PHP
    session_start();
    // get $strSerialized from database
    $_SESSION = unserialize($strSerialized);

// do something
?>
<a href="thirdpage.php">third page</a>

On the third page the session content was still available.

You might need to use one of the mysql escape string functions prior to storing the serialized session data in the database.

Thomas

k_shehadeh

now I need to know how to retrive it

You mean retrieve the session variable?

and the other information that relates to it

Which information that relates to it?

JOV17

Yes,

Sorry for being unclear..

I need to send the session ID of the newley registered user to mysql database, then, when they login at a different date and time, I need to pull the same session ID that was entered with the registration information (username, pass ect...)

If you're wandering why, it's because when the user logs in, they will be able to post text-book info. This text-book info will be related to their session ID which will also be the same session ID as the one in the "users" table.

Example:

Database "bookstorebandits:

Table "users":
Session ID,
Username,
Password,
First Name,
Last Name,
Email,

Table "books:
Session ID,
Date,
Title,
Author,
ISBN,
Price,

Here's my current website biult using .lasso, I'm trying to biuld my own using .php. So I need to learn how to do what my programmer did to make my site.

Thanks for any input that you have ...it is very appreciated.

James

JOV17

Sorry...heres the URL www.bookstorebandits.com