Re: SESSION problem

At 2:09 PM +0200 8/16/08, Sabine Richter wrote:

Hello Tedd, it seems to be a naming problem. You may not use a numeric value for a variable name to store in $_SESSION. By assigning it to $_SESSION, you get a Notice: Unknown: Skipping numeric key 1 in Unknown on line 0 and in your second script a Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in yourpath\index1.php on line XX -> whatever line it was in your script If you define $_SESSION['var'.$i] = $i; or $_SESSION[$i.'var'] = $i; or even $_SESSION[$i.'.1'] = $i; the $_SESSION won't forget your vars on the way to script 2. But it's a bit strange, that you can use your numeric keys in script 1. I tried with other Superglobals like $_POST and $_COOKIE and they seem to accept numeric variable names. So, is that a php bug? But as the docu says "A valid variable name starts with a letter or underscore", I think you can not complain about it. Cheers Sabine

Sabine: You hit the nail right on the head. I discovered that fact this morning and posted an answer already. Here's the demo: http://www.webbytedd.com/b2/session-test1/index.php I read everything I could find about sessions, but didn't come across: "A valid variable name starts with a letter or underscore" To the contrary, this is only what I found: Variable names follow the same rules as other labels in PHP. A valid variable name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores Where did you see that? Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com