Re: Session: I RTFM

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>"; }

Hey, I dont know how much easier it will be but it is faster, you could use a switch statement. switch ($_SESSION['familyname']) { case 'name1': do something; break; case 'name2': do something; break; default: do this if the variable doesnt match a case; break; }