[RESOLVED] session problem

batowiise

Hi all,

I want to implement a session based system whereby after a successful login, some fields on a form will be automatically populated with some session record about the user.

This is my code, but its not behaving the way I want ;

<?php
session_start();
$username = $_SESSION['username'];
$firstname = $_SESSION['firstname']; 
$surname = $_SESSION['surname']; 
require_once("../admin/db.php");

?>

<form action="process.php" method="post" >
<table>
<tr>
            <td width="124">Name:</td>
            <td colspan="2"><input name=" uname " id=" uname" size="60" value="<?php echo $username; ?>" /></td>
            <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
          </tr>

<tr>
            <td width="124">Name:</td>
            <td colspan="2"><input name=" firstname " id=" firstname " size="60" value="<?php echo $firstname; ?>" /></td>
            <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
          </tr>
<tr>
            <td width="124">Name:</td>
            <td colspan="2"><input name="surname" id=" surname " size="60" value="<?php echo $surname; ?>" /></td>
            <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
          </tr>
</table>
</form>

It is only username that gets filed automatically. I however want to fill the firstname and surname too as well.

Your help is much welcome.

Regards,

progvig

$_SESSION['username']="progvig";
$_SESSION['firstname']="payam";
$_SESSION['surname']="khaninejad";
$username = $_SESSION['username'];
$firstname = $_SESSION['firstname'];
$surname = $_SESSION['surname'];

i think, it is your solution !
:queasy:

batowiise

hi,

i want the $firstname = $SESSION['firstname']; and $surname = $SESSION['surname']; to be filled from the users table in the database.

regards.

dagon

show us the code your using to populate the $_SESSION global

batowiise

Hi,

This is the code:

if ($_POST && !empty($_POST['firstname'])) {
  // set session variable
  $_SESSION['firstname'] = $_POST['firstname'];
  }

Assume firstname for userA is Kofi and firstname for userB is Ama. When userA logs in, firstname is Kofi however, when userB logs in, firstname is still Kofi. It does not change.

What next?

Cetera

In order for anyone to help you, you got to show the code where you set the value on $_SESSION['username'].

Your issue seem to be that you are not setting the value of your sessions properly when a user log in. So unless you post that bit of code (That log in the user and set the sessions) it will be hard to help you

batowiise

It worked when i used the following code:

<?php

session_start();
$username = $_SESSION['username'];

require_once("../admin/db.php");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT FROM users WHERE username='$username'") or die(mysql_error());
$rs = mysql_query("SELECT FROM users WHERE username='$username'") or die(mysql_error());
$firstname = mysql_result($result,0,'firstname');
$surname = mysql_result($rs,0,'surname');

Thank you all.