Passing sessions variables between pages

[amrigo]

I need to pass variables between pages...
i have a complete html form wich have this code:

session_start();

The form is calling the login.php wich have this code:

session_start();
$name = $POST['user'];
$SESSION["user"] = $name;

login.php do the db checking and redirect with header(Location) to a page (that contains session_start(); too!!) that mount a three frameset´s page where the menu.php must display the name of the user that login . So in menu.php i have:

<?php session_start(); ?>
<?PHP echo " $_SESSION['usuario']"; ?>

The login name is not displayed what can be wrong?

Thank´s in advance

[weevil]

It is difficult to tell without seeing your code. Where is usuario even getting set?
You might want to try putting in

print_r($_SESSION);

after the session_start on each page to verify the session_id's are the same and figure out where you are losing the value.

[razz]

I agree with Weevil that tracking the variable would be good. I tend to put the session id and one static test variable on each page to see if the if the session is maintained.

It should be noted as well that sessions require cookies or that the global setting session.use_trans_sid be set to 1. Most people (that means me) don't know that at the begining.

Two setting in the php.ini are session.use_trans_sid=1 and session.use_cookies=on.

With that said your exact issue would require seeing your code.

razz

[amrigo]

Hi now is it working, but here is the code, i am using php/oracle

In index.php that calls login.php

<?php
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE 6 Fix.
?> //below comes the form to submit information

In login.php, that redirect to sucess or failure pages:

<?php
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); //IE 6 Fix
$name = $POST['user']; // coming from the initial form
$SESSION['user'] = $name;

$org = $POST['org'];
$user = $POST['user'];

$db_conn = ocilogon("xx", "xx", "xx");
$cmdstr = "SELECT o.CLIENT, o.COD_OP, o.SISTEM, o.COD_CLASS, o.NAME_OPER, f.NAME_FUNC, f.COD_TRANS, f.COD_FUNC FROM SCA_CAD_OP o ,SCA_FUNC f WHERE o.SISTEMA = 'SIST' AND o.CLIENT = '$org' AND o.COD_OPER = '$user' AND o.SISTEM = f.SISTEM AND o.COD_CLASS = f.COD_CLASS";
$parsed = ociparse($db_conn, $cmdstr);
ociexecute($parsed);
$nrows = ocifetchstatement($parsed, $results);
//while($nrows >0){extract($nrows);}
//$_SESSION[name_oper] = $NAME_OPER;
//session_register($NOME_OPER);

if($nrows>0){
header ("location: index1.php");
} else {
header ("location: index.htm");
}
OCIFreeStatement($cmdstr);
OCILogoff($db_conn);
?>

In menu.php i display the name of the user (actually his number)

<?php
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); //IE 6 Fix
?>

... Good morning <?PHP echo " $_SESSION[user]"; ?>

Now my goal is to extract the name of the user since i just have retrieved his number, the mname is this db field:
o.NAME_OPER .

I tried it with the extract function in login.php with these lines:

//while($nrows >0){extract($nrows);}
//$_SESSION[name_oper] = $NAME_OPER;
//session_register($NAME_OPER);

any other way to extract the name ? doing another query ? can i reuse the existing query?

Thank´s in advance