Re: Session: I RTFM

When faced with this problem I tried the following (works) The top section of PHP code just reads the POST return array and plops it into a series of successive _SESSION vars Included is a FORM to use that shows the simple code at work HTH TomHenry ================ Tested ================= <? session_start(); //echo "<HR>List the _POST key/val pairs<P>"; // Try to cycle though the _POST vars // and use them as input to creating _SESSION vars while(list($k,$v)=each($_POST)){ $_SESSION[$k]=$v; //echo "_name_ <b>".stripslashes($k)."</b> _value_ <b>".stripslashes($v)."</b><br>"; } // easy way to peek at the contents of what we just did echo "<hr>print_r of the \$_SESSION array<P>"; print_r($_SESSION); echo "<hr>"; ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Nextpage</title> </head> <body> <P><HR><P> <b><u>Is our _SESSION here?</u></b> <P> <Table width=60% border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5> <TR><TH>Key</TH><TH>Value</TH></TR> <? while(list($k,$v)=each($_SESSION)){ echo "<TR><TD>".stripslashes($k)."</TD><TD>".stripslashes($v)."</TD></TR>"; } ?> </TABLE> <P><HR><P> <form action=<?=$PHP_SELF?> method=POST> key <input type="text" name="key" value='KeyOne' size="15" maxlength="25"> -- value <input type="text" name="value" value='ValueOne' size="30" maxlength="80"> <br> Name: <input type='text' name='name' value="Tim O'Toole " size='12'> -- Address: <input type='text' name='address' value='123 Main Street'> <input NAME=action type=submit value="Submit"> </form> <P><HR><P> </body> </html> John Taylor-Johnston wrote:

Jason wrote: RTFM again.

Jason, again, I RTFM, but did not get it working. Otherwise I wouldn't have dared ask a question.

Sessions depends on a number of factors including your version of PHP and the setting of register_globals.

The FM manual says: "$_SESSION (or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS with PHP 4.0.6 or less) is recommended" So I am using "PHP Version 4.1.2" (and "4.2.3" on my localhost to test offline) Ok. I quit using $HTTP_POST_VARS["familyname"]. With a little rethinking, I have this working, I hope. Now ... is there a cleaner way to assign my variable "familyname"? Pseudo code: if _post["familyname"] exists set session variable

                 (no sense in setting it until I post it)

if _session["familyname"] exists, $familyname = $_SESSION["familyname"]; I'll have about 30 variables. Going to be alot of lines. There must be an easier, cleaner way? <?php #session_name("TestALS"); session_start(); if (isset($_POST["familyname"])) { session_register("familyname"); $familyname = $_POST["familyname"]; echo "Yay: \$familyname= $familyname<br>"; } if (isset($_SESSION["familyname"])) { $familyname = $_SESSION["familyname"]; echo "yay session works, \$familyname= $familyname<br>"; }