Re: Re: PHP Sessions

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 21:33 -0500, Martine Osias wrote: > The sessions variables are OK. They don't print when I put them on the HTML > page with this code. > > <tr> > <td > align="left"><?="&laquo;".$_SESSION['scripture_text']."&raquo;"?></td> > </tr> > > <tr> > <td style="font-size: smaller;" > align="right"><?=$_SESSION['scripture_ref']?></td> > </tr> > > Thank you. > > > Martine > > ""Martine Osias"" <webinq1@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:95.0C.13686.C7CDA9B4@pb1.pair.com... > > Hi: > > > > I need to store variables to send then between pages. I don't need the > > variables in a database so I try to send them with sessions. The variables > > don't seem to be there when I try to get them. What could be the problem. > > Here are the pages where I store and retrieve the variables. > > > > Page 1 (variables stored): > > > > <?php > > > > session_start(); > > > > $_SESSION['scripture_text'] = $row_scripture['ScriptureText']; > > $_SESSION['scripture_ref'] = $row_scripture['ScriptureRef']; > > > > ?> > > > > Page 2 (variables retrieved): > > > > <?php > > session_start(); > > include("includes/config.php"); > > ?> > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > > > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > > <html > > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > > <head> > > </head> > > <body> > > > > <table width="100%" align="center" border="0"> > > > > <tr> > > <td > > align="left"><?="&laquo;".$_SESSION['scripture_text']."&raquo;"?></td> > > </tr> > > > > <tr> > > <td style="font-size: smaller;" > > align="right"><?=$_SESSION['scripture_ref']?></td> > > </tr> > > > > </table> > > > > </body> > > </html> > > > > > > Don't use <?=, it's a crappy short tag and most hosting doesn't support those sorts of tags. Instead, use something like this: <?php echo $_SESSION['scripture_text']; ?> Short tags end up causing more problems than they solve sometimes... Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk