session var is setting ONLY AFTER I reload page, form var displays first page load

[NotGiven]

Page1 has a form that calls Page2. The beginning of Page2:
<? php session_start();
$s=$_POST['sSelected'];
session_register("s"); ?>

in the middle of Page2 I have a form varaible:
<?php echo $_POST['stateSelected']; ?>
<?php echo $_SESSION['s']; ?>

The form var displays the first time the page loads. The session var
displays only after reloading the page2.

Why?

[Herbie Cumberland]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:16:14 -0400, "NotGiven" <no****@nonegiven.net>
wrote:

Page1 has a form that calls Page2. The beginning of Page2:
<? php session_start();
$s=$_POST['sSelected'];
session_register("s"); ?>

in the middle of Page2 I have a form varaible:
<?php echo $_POST['stateSelected']; ?>
<?php echo $_SESSION['s']; ?>

The form var displays the first time the page loads. The session var
displays only after reloading the page2.

Why?

because that's how HTTP works... read and learn.

w3c is a good starting place, although i seem to remember that the
php.net documentation regarding cookies and/or sessions might give you
a good insight into this.

simple solution to your problem: call session_start() in Page1

[Daniel Tryba]

NotGiven <no****@nonegiven.net> wrote:

Page1 has a form that calls Page2. The beginning of Page2:
<? php session_start();
$s=$_POST['sSelected'];
session_register("s"); ?>

in the middle of Page2 I have a form varaible:
<?php echo $_POST['stateSelected']; ?>
<?php echo $_SESSION['s']; ?>

The form var displays the first time the page loads. The session var
displays only after reloading the page2.

Don't use session_register with _SESSION (see the manual), fix your code
($_SESSION['s']=...) and your problem will vanish.

--

Daniel Tryba

[NotGiven]

Thank!
"Daniel Tryba" <ne****************@canopus.nl> wrote in message
news:cd**********@news.tue.nl...

NotGiven <no****@nonegiven.net> wrote:

Page1 has a form that calls Page2. The beginning of Page2:
<? php session_start();
$s=$_POST['sSelected'];
session_register("s"); ?>

in the middle of Page2 I have a form varaible:
<?php echo $_POST['stateSelected']; ?>
<?php echo $_SESSION['s']; ?>

The form var displays the first time the page loads. The session var
displays only after reloading the page2.

Don't use session_register with _SESSION (see the manual), fix your code
($_SESSION['s']=...) and your problem will vanish.

--

Daniel Tryba