Re: sessions

okay... if register_globals is off then your session handling is going to change dramatically. You can read more on it here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php Basically, You still use session_start(); at the top of your page, but you never use session_register, session_is_registered, or session_unregister. To register a variable in a session use: $_SESSION['user'] = $username; or you can use multi-dimensional arrays... recommended to help keep organized. $_SESSION['user']['username'] = $username; $_SESSION['user']['pasword'] = $password; You can also use $HTTP_SESSION_VARS. I'm not quite sure if there is any major difference in the two except that $_SESSION is new post ver 4.0.6 To end a session simply $_SESSION = array(); session_destroy(); Jim Grill Support Web-1 Hosting http://www.web-1hosting.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Durdin" <linuxgeek23@hotmail.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] sessions > Here is the code that starts and registers the session. It is login page > that logs in to itself so the form that produces $_POST["username"] is > actually on the same page, but nothing happens until the user logs in. It > there is something in this code that is not correct or making the other code > from the previous mssages not work please let me know. Thanks again for all > of the help. > > > > <? > session_start(); > $username = $_POST["username"]; > $password = $_POST["password"]; > > if ($username && $password) > { > //user has just tried to login > > $db_conn = mysql_connect("server", "user", "pass"); > mysql_select_db("DB_name", $db_conn); > $query = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE username='$username'and > password='$password'"; > $result = mysql_query($query, $db_conn); > if (mysql_num_rows($result) >0 ) > { > //if they are in the db register the username > $valid_user2 = $username; > session_register("valid_user2"); > } > } > ?> > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >