Re: sessions nightmare

Your variable in session is called "Item", so session_register("SESSION") is wrong. It should be session_register("Item"). But, as you use directly the new syntax ($_SESSION) to affect the variable, you don't need session_register. The variable "Item" will be automatically registered when you write $_SESSION["Item"] = $retrived_itemno; And, be careful for the typo : it is $_SESSION["Item"] and not $SESSION[Item] (notice the _ and the ""). Regards, Philippe A tip : display what is in your session with this code : echo '<pre>'; print_r($_SESSION); echo '</pre>'; "Chris" <rtschrisp@earthlink.net> a écrit dans le message news: Pine.LNX.4.33.0209110847200.4249-100000@laptop.6networks.net... > Greetings, > > I am a new user to php and sessions and for the life of me I > cannot figure this out.... > > I want to be able to have a user login (which is completed), they goto a > search page (completed), and search for a particular item (completed). A > page will display all the links for the items searched for (completed). > What I want out of sessions is to when they click on the link for a > particular item, the item number stay in a session so it can be called > through out each page they goto. What I have as a base of test code is the > following (this was taken from someone's example): > > test1.php: > > <?php > session_start( ); > session_register("SESSION"); > > *** THE FOLLOWING VARIABLE ($retrived_itemno) WOULD NEED TO BE SET ON THE > *** SEARCH PAGE *** > $SESSION["item"] = $retrived_itemno; > > $test2Url = "test2.php?PHPSESSID=" . session_id( ); > > ?> > > <a href="<?=$test2Url ?>">Goto next page</a> > > > test2.php: > > <?php > session_start( ); > echo "the retrived value equals: $SESSION[item]"; > ?> > > > > After you click the hyperlink on test1.php, test2.php will load and the > session ID is in the URL, but nothing is displayed in the echo for > $SESSION[item] in test2.php. What is going on?!#!#!$# > > > Thanks a million in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > - Chris > >