Tom, I do have a session_start() in both files, but it does not seem to help.
- Larry -----Original Message----- From: Tom Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 11:36 AM To: Willie G Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] SESSION variable to pass login ID Hi, Monday, January 13, 2003, 1:04:49 AM, you wrote: WG> Hi, WG> I have been trying to solve the problem of using session variables, but I WG> have not had any luck. What I want to do is simple, I want to set my userid WG> and password in a login screen and use it later (in another php form) to log WG> into the database. WG> In my login PHP file I have the following: WG> if(isset($_POST['userid']) && isset($_POST['pword'])){ WG> $_SESSION['user'] = $_POST['userid']; WG> $_SESSION['password'] = $_POST['pword']; WG> } WG> In my connect to database PHP file I have: WG> if(isset($_SESSION['user'])){ WG> $user=$_SESSION['user']; WG> echo "Print $user"; WG> }else{ WG> echo "Print Missing User"; WG> } WG> The message I always get is "Print Missing User", so I must assume the WG> global variable is not working. Can anyone help me out here? WG> Thanks, WG> Larry Make sure you have session_start() at the begining of the second file. -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
