Re: variables always overwriting session variables?!

Hey Andrew, The problem of the URL stored variables (GET) possible overwriting those in a form (POST), is commonly overlooked. One thing to also look out for is that a variable sent via a cookie seems to overwrite all. In order to be sure the data is coming from the form I recommend using the $HTTP_POST_VARS[]. On the other hand, if you wanted to ensure the variable did come from the URL you could use the php variable $HTTP_GET_VARS[]. Thus where ever you were going to use $login you'd replace it with $HTTP_POST_VARS["login"] Hope this helps! -- Rod Apeldoorn rod@canowhoopass.com http://www.canowhoopass.com/ "Andrew Elliston" <elists@elliston.net> wrote in message news:200011101335.IAA25126@gibson.acpub.duke.edu... I've recently begun experimenting with sessions in PHP4.3pl1 and seem to have hit a snag. Variables included in the URL _always_ overwrite the variables stored in the session. Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a way to protect against this? <!-- Snip --> Thanks, Andrew Elliston