How to register session keys

gfd

Hello,

is there an easy/fast way to register variables in session keys?

I have found and use the following to get the input from form variables:

while (list($key,$val)=each($_POST)) {
    $$key = $val;
}

.... and I was wondering if there is a similar way to do the same for session keys. I would like to combine it with the above snippet in order to use a session for my forms.

The only way I know to register a session key, is the long way:

$_SESSION['name'] = $name;

Any clues?

thanks

tsinka

Hi,

the short form of the while loop is

extract($_POST);

This is only neccessary with register_globals set to off. With register_globals set to on you already can access the post variables with $postkey. It's strongly recommended to have register_globals set to off.

To store all POST values in the session:

while (list($key,$val)=each($_POST)) {
    $_SESSION[$key] = $val;
}

I hope I didn't completely misunderstand you.

Thomas

gfd

Thanks for the quick reply tsinka!

Your code does exactly what i was looking for, apart from one thing.
My validation stopped working.

I then tried to use your code together with the while loop I used to get the input from the form variables and it still didn't work. (I think I made a nice code salad here)

while (list($key,$val)=each($_POST)) {
    $$key = $val;
}
while (list($key,$val)=each($_POST)) {
    $_SESSION[$key] = $val;
}

Do you by any chance know why my validation (bunch of if - echos) stopped working?

tsinka

Please post the validation code. Besides that I'd suggest to store the values in the session after the validation. But how do do it depends on your validation code.

Thomas

gfd

oook! I fixed it.

I must've made some silly mistake while making alterations.

I saved the session keys after the validation, as you suggested, and I wrote the validation code from scratch, and it worked!!!!

Thank you very very much Thomas, this is great 😃

George