Re: New on PHP, need help with sessions

on 7/3/01 12:19 AM, Victor Spång Arthursson at victor@miceandbrains.dk wrote: > Hi! > > I'm converting from ASP/VBScript, and need to know how to declare a > session variable. i feel your pain. i just finished moving a site from ASP/VBScript to PHP/Javascript, learning ASP/VBScript and Javascript along the way :) > > In VBScript I just type in: > > <% > session("any") = "victor" > %> > > Then I can print that variable on any page on the same webpage using: > > <% > response.write session("any") > %> > > as long as I don't close the browser or the variable times out. > > Question: How do I achieve the same thing in PHP..? you'll want to take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php you can start a session by starting it or by registering a variable. session_start() session_register("variablename") once set, the variables are available as $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["variablename"] or (depending on how php is configured) $variablename. on my macos x box, $variablename does work. > > Thanks in advance, > > Sincerely Victor > > PS Using PHP 4 on Mac OS X DS -- mike cullerton