RE: [PHP] Another Session Question..

What I am trying to do is register a variable already in the request array...as a session variable. I know I can do $_SESSION['foo'] = $_REQUEST['foo'] but that's if I know the name of the variable that was registered on the form side.... I do know the name, but it's dynamically generated. So for example, the name could be foo1 - foo10 and I want to register all of them as session variables. So I want to be able to do this: $count = 1; $varname = "foo" . $count; then do this: $_SESSION[$varname] = $_REQUEST[$varname] where the value of varname is actually the name of the variable that I want to pull out....Does that make any sense? I don't think that I can do $_SESSION['varname'] = $_REQUEST['varname'] in this case because I don't want the value of varname as a session variable....I want the value of the value of varname as a session variable. I'm not sure if I can do this...but I'd assume there has got to be some way, I just don't know what it is. Also, apparently the php manual warns not to use $_SESSION['var'] = $var with session_register and session_unregister. So that wouldn't work for me anyway. (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-register.php) Zara -----Original Message----- From: Coggeshall, John [mailto:john.coggeshall@delphiauto.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:38 PM To: Gonzalez, Zara E Subject: RE: [PHP] Another Session Question.. If you are trying to register any variable... Say $foo... Session_register('foo'); It will automatically appear in the $_SESSION array next time a page is requested. I'm pretty sure it even will do it immediately (put it in $_SESSION) John -----Original Message----- From: Gonzalez, Zara E [mailto:gonzalze@mail.slh.wisc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:23 PM To: 'php-general@lists.php.net' Subject: [PHP] Another Session Question.. I asked a question the other day about turning $_REQUEST variables into $_SESSION variables...thanks, all who helped me with that... I have another question about assigning $_REQUEST variables to $_SESSION variables that I am hoping someone can help me out with.... Here is a snippit of code... while($r = mssql_fetch_array($result)) { $vname = $group_abbr . $count; $_SESSION[$vname] = $_REQUEST[$vname]; } Now an explanation... $vname is the actual name of the variable that is stored in the $_REQUEST array (and what I want it to be called in the $_SESSION array) can I do this: ? (for example, a1 so $_SESSION['a1'] = $_REQUEST['a1']; is what I want it to do...but I need to send the name of the variable as a variable...) I tried this... $_SESSION[$vname] = $_REQUEST[$vname]; ...but it doesn't seem to be working and I can't figure out how to get those variables registered.... Any help is much appreciated. Zara -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php