ch****************@gmail.com wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
ch****************@gmail.com wrote:
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flamer di******@hotmail.com wrote:
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>>ch****************@gmail.com wrote:
>>
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>>>I need to set the information being passed through the fields (23 of
>>>them) in the form into a session.
>>>
>>>Where do I start?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Chris
>>
>>you want the submitted data from a form into a session?
>>
>>//get the var out of the form
>>$var1 = $_POST["var1"];
>>
>>//stick it into session
>>$_SESSION["var2"] = $var1;
>>
>>Flamer.
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>
I was using this which I believe accomplishes the same thing:
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session_start();
$_SESSION['firstname'] = $_POST['firstname'];
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now, if I understand correctly, the element from the _POST array should
have set the variable in the _SESSION array.
>
So how the heck do I retrieve it on subsiquent pages? And what sort of
settings do you need in PHP.INI for sessions to work?
>
I've got a ton of inherited code/programs that are using global
variables=on and I've got to turn that off as soon as I can and I'm
starting at a dead stop at the moment.
>
Any help is appreciated.
>
Chris
(Top posting fixed)
It's just as easy to get them out of the session:
session_start();
$firstname = $_SESSION['firstname'];
The default settings in the php.ini file often work fine. Just look at
the session entries. It's pretty well documented.
The biggest problem I've seen is the session.save_path must point to a
directory where the web server (if you're not using the CGI version of
PHP) must have read/write access.
P.S. Please don't top post. Thanks.
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I've looked and the session.save_path is read/write accessable, but the
majority of the session are blank so I'm not sure where I went wrong.
I'm using just this basic form at the moment:
<?php // text1.php
session_start();
$firstname = $_SESSION['firstname'];
$lastname = $_SESSION['lastname'];
$title = $_SESSION['title'];
$institution = $_SESSION['institution'];
$street = $_SESSION['street'];
$city = $_SESSION['city'];
// form
echo <<<HTML
<head><title>text1</title></head><body>
<form method="post" action="text2.php">
First Name: <input type="text" name="firstname" value=""/><br/>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="lastname" value=""/><br/>
Title: <input type="text" name="title" value=""/><br/>
Institution: <input type="text" name="institution" value=""/><br/>
Street: <input type="text" name="street" value=""/><br/>
City: <input type="text" name="city" value=""/><br/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form></body></html>
HTML;
?>
and want to be able to pull the information on any of the subsiquent 3
or 4 pages that people go through before completing it, but the session
record is blank in the file.
OK, so I've got the records writing to the session folder and I can
call them on the second page, now what I'm finding is that they won't
persist - I've inserted an intermediary page in the sequence and what
happens is that the information stored in the session file disappears.
Here is the code:
PAGE 1
<?php // text1.php
session_start();
$_SESSION['SID'] = session_id();
// form
echo <<<HTML
<head><title>text1</title></head><body>
<form method="post" action="text2.php">
First Name: <input type="text" name="firstname" value=""/><br/>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="lastname" value=""/><br/>
Title: <input type="text" name="title" value=""/><br/>
Institution: <input type="text" name="institution" value=""/><br/>
Street: <input type="text" name="street" value=""/><br/>
City: <input type="text" name="city" value=""/><br/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form></body></html>
HTML;
?>
PAGE 2
<?php // text2.php
session_start();
$sessionID = $_SESSION['SID'];
// Do any checking on this here maybe?
$_SESSION['firstname'] = $_POST['firstname'];
$_SESSION['lastname'] = $_POST['lastname'];
$_SESSION['title'] = $_POST['title'];
$_SESSION['institution'] = $_POST['institution'];
$_SESSION['street'] = $_POST['street'];
$_SESSION['city'] = $_POST['city'];
echo $_SESSION['firstname']; // should now work...
?>
<html>
<a href="text3.php">Continue to next page</a>
</html>
PAGE 3
<?php // text2.php
session_start();
$sessionID = $_SESSION['SID'];
// Do any checking on this here maybe?
$_SESSION['firstname'] = $_POST['firstname'];
$_SESSION['lastname'] = $_POST['lastname'];
$_SESSION['title'] = $_POST['title'];
$_SESSION['institution'] = $_POST['institution'];
$_SESSION['street'] = $_POST['street'];
$_SESSION['city'] = $_POST['city'];
echo $_SESSION['firstname']; // should now work...
echo <<<HTML
<head><title>text2</title></head><body>
<form method="post" action="text3.php">
text2: <input type="text" name="text2" value="" ><br/>
<input type="submit"/><br/>
</form><p>Return to <a href="text1.php">text1</a>.</p>
</body></html>
HTML;
echo $_POST['firstname'];
?>
The session file goes from being populated with data to this:
SID|s:32:"6ba624e9304bf5511a191a836a324c1b";firstn ame|N;lastname|N;title|N;institution|N;street|N;ci ty|N;
I'm thinking that I didn't make the data persistant, or didn't set
something up on the link to the 3rd page correctly.
I appreciate all the help I've gotten and if anyone has an explination
about what I'm doing wrong it would be welcome.
Thanks.
