Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in

cottoneye1256

I have a form website (in htm) that works fine, pressing send button displays everything fine on page 2. Problem is I want to keep that info so the user can print the results on a different page (page 3) but the data is lost.

I found out after searching all over the internet (php session tutorial) the best way to do this is with sessions. A couple of questions if I may:

Can I use sessions in my first page thats in htm?? or do all the pages need to be in php.
Does session_start(); have to be in every page I want to pass info to?

The following example uses three pages called page1.php. page2.php and page3.php

page1.php

<?php
session_start();
if($POST['button']){
$SESSION['name'] = $_POST['name'];
session_write_close();
echo 'Session has been saved<a href="page2.php"> Go to page2.php</a>';
}else{
?>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<label>
Enter Name:
<input name="name" type="text" id="textarea" value="" size="20" maxlength="20">
</label>
<br>
<label>
<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit">
</label>
</form>
<?php
}

?>

page2.php

<?php
session_start();
echo 'this is page2.php. <br> $SESSION['name'] is equals to: '.$SESSION['name'];
?>

Page2.php causes an error I can't seem to figure out:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/content/c/o/t/cottoneye1256/html/page2.php on line 3

Please help I'm going nuts trying to figure out sessions

Thank you

djjjozsi

Can I use sessions in my first page thats in htm?? or do all the pages need to be in php.
In a normal html file you could not use variables which set in another php pages.
( you can add an extension .php into your html file to get a php file. )
```
- Does session_start();  have to be in every page I want to pass info to?
```

Yes, its necessary.

The problem is with an unescaped ' marks.

print '      '       '  ;  // is illegal!  

print '       \'  $_SESSION['asdasd']    ';   //not OK

/*  how about this?  */
print "this is page2.php. <br> {$_SESSION['name']} is equals to: {$_SESSION['name']}   ";

<?php 
session_start(); 
/*     You forget that, with a single qoute if you print something it gives
you whatever you write into that, 4 example $whatever  appears $whatever */
echo 'this is page2.php. <br> '.$_SESSION['name'].' is equals to: '. $_SESSION['name']; 
?>

brendan2b

To answer your questions, no sessions cannot be in .htm files, they MUST be used in .php files.

Yes, session_start(); must be in every php files you want to use the $_SESSION array in and other session related functions. I would recommend putting session_start() as one of the first lines in each file.

Your page2 is giving an error because you aren't escaping the apostrophes.
See below. You need to fix your echo line to the following.


<?php
session_start();
echo 'this is page2.php. <br> $_SESSION[\'name\']  is equals to: '.$_SESSION['name'];
?>

cottoneye1256

Thanks a lot, I was going nuts with that error.

But one finale question.. My first page is htm and I send data over to page 2 which is a php file, could I put the sessions in this page and make the sessions=variables from page 1

thanks again
great site

brendan2b

If action="page2.php" in your form on page1, meaning you are posting the data to page2.php then yes you could start sessions on page2.php like the following



session_start();


if(isset($_POST['formFromPage1']))
{
    $_SESSION['name'] = $_POST['name'];

// that would set $_SESSION['name'] = to your name field from the form on       
// page1

   // you will then have the data stored in session variables which you could then 
   // easily access on page3.php


}

cottoneye1256

thanks very, much works fine