storing variables using sessions

dhiren22

Can anyone give me any direction on how to store variables from a form using sessions. I am very new to php and pretty lost.

I have a form that gathers some user information and stores them in variable to send to an LDAP directory service. eg) a textfield name is "Firstname" stored in the variable $firstname. How would I store this variable in a cookie so that it is available to other HTML pages too. Thank you

frog_

http://php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

This site should help you get started. I also recommend the chapter on sessions in Core PHP Programming.

dhiren22

This is what I tried doing

$Firstname has the indiviual's name stored in it.

session_start();
session_register($Firstname);

Then on the next page I did a
session_start() and tried to echo the value of $Firstname ... but nothing.

Is what I am doing correct?

Anon

You don't restart the session on every page.

dhiren22

Doesn't work either way!!

frog_

Have you enabled sessions in php.ini?

Did you start your session as the first thing on that page?

Those are two rules I think of offhand. otherwise, you may want to peruse the link I sent you.