Re: session management

if(!isset($SESSION)){ session_register("SESSION"); } $SESSION is an array, and is now registered, anything you assign to $SESSION like this $SESSION["username"]="foo"; will now be available as a session variable that you can echo back out like this: echo $SESSION["username"]; You should read the documentation on sessions, also phpbuilder has a lot of good articles, and web monkey as well. Hope that helps -Mark "Richard Jones" <rikki@ultramail.co.uk> wrote in message news:00080813240602.10895@arthur... > Hello all, > > I've just joined the mailing list, and am already wondering if someone can > help me. I am attempting to use an array as a session variable. About an > hour ago, it was working OK. It had some bugs, but in general it was doing > what I wanted. Feeling satisfied with my progress I take a break for a > cigarette, during which time the code decides that actually, it's not going > to work after all!! > > I'm sure that I didn't touch anything between when it worked and didn't work > - my only guess is that maybe something was being cached somewhere, to hide > the fact that I'd broken it, but that it's quite unlikely. > > I wrote: > > //session management gumpf > > session_start(); > session_register($ARRAY); > > > /* check that the array has been set. If not, set it */ > > if(!isset($ARRAY) || !is_array($ARRAY)) { > $ARRAY = array(); > echo "reset"; // just so I can see when it's doing this > } > > include("products.php"); // other functions are contained in here > > /* check that $pta (a number) is set. If it is, and $amount (another > number) is not set, then set $amount to 1, and then build the array */ > if(isset($pta)) { > if (!isset($amount)) { > $amount = 1; > } > $ARRAY = build_cart_array($CART, $pta, $amount); // this works, and > $ARRAY is returned as a successfully built array. > } > > // end of session management gumpf > > > The problem seems to be that further down the page that this is at the top > of, I call other functions which use $ARRAY. They all also manipulate the > array correctly, but some of them require that the page on which the above > code is stored be reloaded. Now, that /was/ OK until after my cigarette, and > everything behaved nicely, but suddenly the array checking code that prints > "reset" every time it runs is running every time that I reload the page, and > resets the array to being empty, which is not what I want. > > My suspicions concern the session_register() function. I've read that it is > buggy (I don't know how true this is), and that it overwrites all session > variables when it runs. If this is the case, does anyone know how to get > round it, and any ideas why it wasn't causing problems before? Any help > would be thoroughly appreciated, as I've been banging my head against it for > some time now, and my brain is hurting. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > "I need my sleep. I need eight hours a day ... and about ten at night." > Bill Hicks > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >