[Resolved] About Session

[plasmahba]

Hi everybody

I want to create a session in order to move the results of a search to different pages of the site while youre navigating so you dont have to go back to the search engine in case you need another option of your search.

This is what I`ve done and doesn´t work. If somebody can help me out I will appreciate it a lot.
Thank you

search.php_--------------------------------------------------------->

$sessarray=array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { 
$ID = $row["ID"];
$Name = $row["Name"];
$Photo = $row["Photo"];
$sessarray[$ID]=$Photo; 

$_SESSION["list"]=$sessarray;

data.php------------------------------------------------------------->
<?php
session_start();
?>
{Session.list}

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It is suppose to bring the results of the search to this new page data.php.

Maybe I`m missing something basic here

[gufmn]

Without seeing all the code I'm going to ask a stupid question. Are you calling session_start() in search.php?

[plasmahba]

Yeah actually I do. And the only result I got from the search in data.php is "Array"

Any idea?

Thanx

[tuf-web_co_uk]

in this case it is likely that you arent retrieving the information from the database properly.

wrong field name in $row[''] possibly

on search.php

at the end of the file place this.

<?php
print_r($sessarray);
?>

if that returns just 'Array ( )', then you want to look into your $row vars

[plasmahba]

Actually the search works correctly and if I print it , I seems to be ok, I just get "Array" as the result of the session in data.php

Still wondering....

[tuf-web_co_uk]

i see the problem now

on the first page add this to the bottom

<?php
echo $sessarray; 
// returns Array
echo $sessarray["n"]; // where n is an id from the results. eg 1
// returns the corresponding photo for that id
?>

in other words, you arent defining a index or something which tells php which part of the array you want to return

[plasmahba]

I made some changes and instead to try to create a session to gather the results of the search I tried to do it with a simple query in my dtabase in "a.php"

And what I got is only the last result listed in "b.php" instead of all of them.

I will keep trying

[plasmahba]

This is what is was missing!

I appreciate all your help

Thanx

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session list is an array

<? session_start();

PHP:

<? print_r($_SESSION['list']); ?> //will show you the make up of array

to use them

PHP:

foreach($_SESSION['list'] as $id => $name)
echo $id." - ".$name."<br>";