sessions with variables

CONTEMAN

hi.......

i was wondering how i would store and call back some session variables such as the account number...... these variables are stared in a mysql database.....

ALSO!!!!!!! what is $PHP_SELF??????

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="[COLOR="Red"]<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>[/COLOR]">

pete_bisby

Sessions are stored on the web server itself - to use sessions you must have session_start at the top of each PHP page.

<?php
  session_start();
  ...
  ...
?>

PHP_SELF returns back the current PHP page. So, for example, your page is called index.php, index.php will be returned. However it shouldn't be PHP_SELF, but $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], because it is a server variable.

CONTEMAN

alright, but how do i stare things like account numbers and such??????

for example........
my database has a table called "accounts", and it stores the accounts: ID, username, password, email, premium days left, etc......
what i want to do is have the username stored in the session.... how would i go about doing this?

pete_bisby

Create your query that extracts the username from the table, then assign the username to the session

// query to get username from table
  $_SESSION["username"] = $row["username"];
  ...

Alternatively, when the user logs onto your system/application/website, assign the username to the session at this point.