Fw: [PHP] help needed with session variables

Isnt it better to do it in this way? session_start(); session_register('USER'); $USER['valid'] = true; $USER['firstname'] = $first_name; $USER['lastname'] = $last_name; Then I really know what I am doing! Good luck Sascha ----- Original Message ----- From: "1LT John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> To: "Pushpinder Singh Garcha" <pgarcha@adelphia.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] help needed with session variables > Are you sure $first_name and $last_name have a value? Double check... > > ---John Holmes... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pushpinder Singh Garcha" <pgarcha@adelphia.net> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 4:44 PM > Subject: [PHP] help needed with session variables > > > hello, > > I am making use of sessions in my PHp/MySQL Database application. When > the user is successfully authenticated against the database, a session > is created in following manner: > > > session_register("valid_user","firstname","lastname"); > > $valid_user = $login; > $firstname = $first_name; > $lastname = $last_name; > > While I am able to use the $valid_user variable all thru the sesion , > when I try to use the $valid_user it works fine (i.e. I am able to > access the value) throughout the session, however when I try to use the > other two registered session variables i.e firstname and lastname, I > am not able to extract the value. Can you suggest what might be going > wrong. Note I am locally testing the setup on my Mac. > > Many Thanks > Pushpinder Singh Garcha > _________________________________ > Web Architect > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >