[RESOLVED] Passing Session between pages

helenae

Hi,

I am having problem passing session var from one page to another. Basically, I have a page that have session var set in it and i am trying to pass the session var from this page to a form and finally to the form process page. I do not want to use hidden field in the form to pass the session. How do I pass the session from page1.php to the form process that will send an email? Any help is appreciated.

thanks,

page1.php

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['name'] = 'FNAME';
$_SESSION['addr'] = 'DSTREET';
$_SESSION['contact'] = 'contact_info';
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<a href="pappt.php">Testing</a>
</body>
</html>

form.php

<?php 
session_start();
?>

<form action="process.php" method="post">
some field

</form>

JVassie

Hi,

You said you were having problems getting the session data on the form.php page, but I can't see any attempt at calling it?


<?php
session_start();
$name = $_SESSION['name'];
$address = $_SESSION['addr'];
$contact = $_SESSION['contact']; 
?>

<form action="process.php" method="post">
some field

</form>

Simple as that really, unless I misunderstand what you need to do.

helenae

Hi JVassie,

I try that but still not seeing pass to the process form. Here is my process form not sure what i did wrong. I want to have the sessions in page1.php to be sent to an email address like below. I don't want to use hidden field due to don't want to show some details in view source. Thanks.

<?php

session_start();

/* Set e-mail recipient */
$myemail  = "hello@gmail.com";


/* Check all form inputs using check_input function */
$time	   = check_input($_POST['time'], "Preferred time not selected.");
$terms     = check_input($_POST['terms'], "Terms and Condition must be checked");
$datesent  = date("l, F j, Y, g:i a");
$name = $_SESSION['name'];
$address = $_SESSION['addr'];
$contact = $_SESSION['contact']; 




htmlentities ($message, ENT_QUOTES);

/* message for the e-mail */
$message = "


Address: $addr 
name:$name
E-mail: $email
Requested Date: $requestdate
Prefer Time: $time


Comments:
$comments

Terms: $terms

";


mail($myemail, $subject, $message);


header('Location: thankyou.php');
exit();


function check_input($data, $problem='')
{
    $data = trim($data);
    $data = stripslashes($data);
    $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
    if ($problem && strlen($data) == 0)
    {
        show_error($problem);
    }
    return $data;
}

function show_error($myError)
{
?>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div id="formcontainer">
	<table width="380" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" >
    <tr><td width="380" height="10"></td></tr>
    <tr><td height="1" class="titleline"></td></tr>
	<tr><td height="154" valign="bottom" align="center" class="normal error"><?php echo $myError; ?></td></tr>
    <tr><td height="131" align="center"><a href="javascript:history.go(-1)"><img src="../images/buttons/tryagain.png" border="0"></a> </td></tr>
    <tr><td height="150"></td></tr></table></div>


</body>
</html>
<?php
exit();
}
?>

JVassie

Change your code to as below:


/* message for the e-mail */
$message = "


Address: {$addr} 
name: {$name}
E-mail: {$email}
Requested Date: {$requestdate}
Prefer Time: {$time}


Comments:
{$comments}

Terms: {$terms}

";

mail($myemail, $subject, $message);

You need to put curly braces ({}) around your PHP variables for them to be parsed through. That should work now.

helenae

Thx. It works great.