I'm having some session difficulties as well:
<?
session_start();
if (@$_SESSION['auth'] != "yes")
{
header("Location: Login.php");
}
include ('staff.inc');
?>
<-- INSERT HTML CODE HERE -->
<h3>Welcome
<?
$connection = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password)
or die ("Couldn't connect to server.");
$db = mysql_select_db($database,$connection)
or die ("Couldn't select database.");
$idnumber = $_SESSION['logname'];
$sql = "SELECT firstName,lastName FROM Member WHERE loginName='$idnumber'";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die("Cannot get login name.");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC);
extract($row);
$firstName = $row['firstName'];
$lastName = $row['lastName'];
echo '$firstName $lastName'; ?>
!</h3>
For some crazy reason, I get Welcome $firstName $lastName, rather than the data!