Displaying username in user page

[kate83]

Hi all,

I've encountered a problem which i hope u all can help. i have a userlogin page named userlogin.html where i declare the username field as 'u_username'. After that, it will passthrough a "User.php" where it will determine whether the username and password does exists in the database. Then, it will go to the user main page "index.php" where it will show the username but it just can't display out. In "User.php", i declare a variable $username=POST['u_username']; and i use the following statement in "index.php", <php echo $username; ?>. Did i miss out anything or what? Thanks folks for your help 🙂

[benracer]

1)

$username=POST['u_username'];

can be removed.

2)

<php echo $username; ?>

needs to be

 <php echo $_POST['u_username']; ?>

[kate83]

I tried your above method but it still can't display the username.

[kate83]

Hi,
I've tried your method but it still can't display the username.😕

[rsmith]

I would set a $_SESSION variable after the user is verified. So on your User.php page, after you verify the user is valid...

if($user){
     $_SESSION['u_username'] = $_POST['u_username'];
}

Then that makes the $_SESSION['u_username'] available to any and all scripts and you can echo it by simply using:

echo "Hello ".$_SESSION['u_username']."!";

[kate83]

A Million Thanks!! It works 🙂

[Weedpacket]

kate83 wrote:

Did i miss out anything or what?

As rsmith hinted, you forgot to pass the username from User.php to index.php. Sessions are a good way to pass data from page to page.