request for help with session issues

dariuc

Hi. I'm new to this board and basically im learning to use the sessions of php.
For some reason i can't get session variables to carry over to the next page. I plan on using this feature for a website which i have already began creating and am 70% done with.

Any help or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated, as I have stared , tinkered and messed with this code for nearly two weeks with no results. Thanks in advance.

(page 1)
<?php
session_start();
$_session[name]="Megaman";

<html>
<head>
<title>
testing sessions
</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php

echo "$_session[name]<br>";

echo "<form action='sessiontest2.php' method='post'>
<input type='hidden' name='name' value='$_session[name]'>
<input type='submit' value='go to the next page'>

</form>";
?>
</html>

<page 2)

<?php
session_start();
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>
testing sessions 2
</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php
echo "$_post[name]<br>";

</body>

</html>

bradgrafelman

When posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]
[/noparse] bbcode tags as they make your code much easier to read and analyze. You should go back now and edit your previous post to include these tags.
When asking us to debug your code, its best to set display_errors to On and error_reporting to E_ALL. If you would have done that, you would be getting some error messages about undefined variables and whatnot - these are helpful to us in debugging your code with you.
You need to be careful about your variable names since case matters; $post and $session don't exist, whereas $POST and $SESSION do.

shawty

Problem number 1:

(page 1)
<?php
session_start();
$_session[name]="Megaman";

When your using textual identifiers in your arrays, they MUST be enclosed in quotes, so the above should be

(page 1)
<?php
session_start();
$_session["name"]="Megaman";

(page 1)
<?php
session_start();
$_session['name']="Megaman";

Notice the quotes around the 'name' portion in the $session array.

Problem 2:

As brad pointed out, you need to upcase all your $POST & $SESSION variable refs.

PHP doesn't recognize the lowercase versions as the special variables that they are, and so adding to $session , actually adds the data to a local private variable of your own called session, and so PHP will NOT preserve it across page calls. same applies for $post.

Cheers

Shawty