Adding a href selection to a session variable

[robinson]

Hello everybody,

Looking at the code below, how do I go about adding the HREF selection ($row['ci_taskid']) to a session variable?

index.php

while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($ProjectListResults))
{ echo '<tr>';

echo "<td> <a href='projectassessment.php?taskid=" .$row['ci_taskid'] . " ' > " . $row['ci_taskid'] . "</a></td>";
echo '<td>' . $row['ci_firstname'] . ' '.$row['ci_lastname']. '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['ci_projectid']. '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['ci_sde'] . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['ci_status']. '</td>';
echo '<td>' . $row['ci_title']. '</td>';
echo '</tr>';
}

current problem:

I have the following code in the receiving page but the receiving page is a data entry page so the page will be used by the same user multiple times but the session variable is lost when a user tries to add a new record. I'm assuming its lost when the same page is returned without any values signed to $_GET and in turn a blank value is returned or passed to the session variable.

projectassessment.php

<?php
session_start();
echo $SESSION['taskid'] = $GET['taskid'];

...

?>

any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

[cretaceous]

could be as simple as:
if($GET['taskid'])$SESSION['taskid'] = $_GET['taskid'];
then empty values will be ignored

You should check the value of $_GET['taskid'] first for valid input - and probably cast it to an integer (if it is an integer) via intval