joining variables together

[Ian Davies]

Hello
I am trying to update a session, ie everytime the page is resubmitted I want
the current selected value from a list to be appended to the old session
value. I have the following code but am unable to get it to work. I dont
know the correct syntac wher I have put the word 'PLUS'.

<?php $_SESSION['savedcomm'] = $_SESSION['savedcomm'] PLUS
$_POST['selectcomm'];?>

I have tried & but this doesnt work, or even && which I have seen in some
script

Help please
Ian

[J.O. Aho]

Ian Davies wrote:

Hello
I am trying to update a session, ie everytime the page is resubmitted I want
the current selected value from a list to be appended to the old session
value. I have the following code but am unable to get it to work. I dont
know the correct syntac wher I have put the word 'PLUS'.

<?php $_SESSION['savedcomm'] = $_SESSION['savedcomm'] PLUS
$_POST['selectcomm'];?>

I have tried & but this doesnt work, or even && which I have seen in some
script

$_SESSION['savedcomm'] = $_SESSION['savedcomm'] . $_POST['selectcomm'];

//Aho

[Ian Davies]

Thanks Aho

sorry I should have added, what if I want each newly added item to the
session to display as seperat lines when returned to a text field?

Ian

"J.O. Aho" <us**@example.net> wrote in message
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Ian Davies wrote:

Hello
I am trying to update a session, ie everytime the page is resubmitted I want the current selected value from a list to be appended to the old session
value. I have the following code but am unable to get it to work. I dont
know the correct syntac wher I have put the word 'PLUS'.

<?php $_SESSION['savedcomm'] = $_SESSION['savedcomm'] PLUS
$_POST['selectcomm'];?>

I have tried & but this doesnt work, or even && which I have seen in some script

$_SESSION['savedcomm'] = $_SESSION['savedcomm'] . $_POST['selectcomm'];

//Aho

[David Haynes]

Ian Davies wrote:

Thanks Aho

sorry I should have added, what if I want each newly added item to the
session to display as seperat lines when returned to a text field?

Ian

$lines = $_SESSION['line1'].'<br>'.$_SESSION['line2'];
or
$lines = sprintf("%s<br>%s", $_SESSION['line1'], $_SESSION['line2']);
or
$prefix = 'line';
$lines = '';
foreach($_SESSION as $key => $value) {
if( substr($key, 0, strlen($prefix)) == $prefix) {
if( $lines == '' ) $lines = $value;
else $lines = sprintf("%s<br>%s", $lines, $value);
}
}

This assumes that all the lines you want to join together begin with the
tag name 'line'. (e.g. line1, line2, line_foo, etc.)

-david-

[J.O. Aho]

Ian Davies wrote:

sorry I should have added, what if I want each newly added item to the
session to display as seperat lines when returned to a text field?

$_SESSION['savedcomm'] = $_SESSION['savedcomm'] . "\n" . $_POST['selectcomm'];

This would add new line between the old and new data.

If you want to display it in a html section, then you can use nl2br()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

<h2><?php echo nl2br($_SESSION['savedcomm']); ?></h2>

If you add things to a textarea, then do

<textarea name="thetext" rows="20" cols="80"><?php echo
$_SESSION['savedcomm']; ?></textarea>

Here you don't use the nl2br as the the textarea element does respect the new
line, which isn't done in html otherwise.
//Aho

[Ian Davies]

Thanks J.O.
That was what I wanted

"J.O. Aho" <us**@example.net> wrote in message
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Ian Davies wrote:

sorry I should have added, what if I want each newly added item to the
session to display as seperat lines when returned to a text field?

$_SESSION['savedcomm'] = $_SESSION['savedcomm'] . "\n" .

$_POST['selectcomm'];
This would add new line between the old and new data.

If you want to display it in a html section, then you can use nl2br()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

<h2><?php echo nl2br($_SESSION['savedcomm']); ?></h2>

If you add things to a textarea, then do

<textarea name="thetext" rows="20" cols="80"><?php echo
$_SESSION['savedcomm']; ?></textarea>

Here you don't use the nl2br as the the textarea element does respect the new line, which isn't done in html otherwise.
//Aho