RE: [PHP-DB] Session Broken

In your function, you use $UserName and $PHPSESSID, but they are not available to the function's variable scope by default. In other words, you can't use those variables until you copy them over from the outside to the inside of the function. The way to do that is by either passing them as arguments, like this: ShowMessage("This is the message",$UserName,$PHPSESSID); function ShowMessage($message,$UserName,$PHPSESSID) { ... rest of function ... } ---- OR ---- You can copy them in by using global: function ShowMessage($message) { global $UserName; global $PHPSESSID; ... rest of function ... } Even if this explains your dilemma, you should probably read this page in the manual. It has a lot of good info that a lot of programmers don't know - I thought I knew all about scopes until I read this and learned a bit more - and a lot of good user notes at the bottom. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php - Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Tedder [mailto:matthew@tedder.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 5:02 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Session Broken Can anyone tell me why my session isn't working? I have attached the problem script. Without even going to another page, the $PHPSESSID and $UserName variables are both empty. They are also empty on subsequent pages. It starts with: ========================================================= <?php session_start(); session_register("UserName"); /*=====<< Check for New User Session >>=====*/ if(!isset($UserName)) { $UserName = "guest"; }; ========================================================== And toward the end, it has the following: ========================================================== function ShowMessage($message) { print "<br>\n"; print "<table border=2 align=center>\n"; print "<tr><td align=center><font color=yellow>$UserName ($PHPSESSID): $message</font></td></tr>\n"; print "</table>\n"; } ?> ========================================================== In this function, the variables are flat empty. --Matthew -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net