Re: Session help please?

--- Paul <pfine@of-law.com> wrote: > I figured I could do something like $_SESSION['test'] = 5 and refer to > $test on other pages however I cannot. The reason I thought I could do > this is because I can do $_SESSION['test'] = $_POST['test'] and be able > to refer to just $test on other pages. This is because you probably have register_globals enabled, so the value of "test" in the user POST request is available to you as both: $_POST['test'] and $test It has nothing to do with you also setting $_SESSION['test']. Hope that helps. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming Fall 2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/