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Posted by Jon on 03/01/06 16:23
"Norman Peelman" <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "Jon" <jonra@netins.com> wrote in message
> news:du2k3c$enp$1@news.netins.net...
>> All,
>>
>> I'm currently building a custom Content Management system for a site
>> we're
>> working on, and am stuck. Currently, I am using a couple of classes to
>> run
>> most of the queries throughout the application. Well, I'm pretty stuck
> now.
>>
>> What I need to do is use a variable throughout my classes that is a
> Session
>> variable. I really can't find another solution. The syntax I was using
>> for
>> this variable before (I actually hard coded it during my testing and
>> development before this point) was this:
>>
>> class C_DisplayContent{
>>
>> var $username = "S_";
>>
>> function foo(){
>> //code that uses the variable as $this->username
>> }//end foo
>>
>> }//end class
>>
>> So, what I really need now is to have the variable look like this:
>>
>> var $username = $_SESSION['username'];
>>
>> and be able to use it like normal using the $this->username syntax.
> However,
>> PHP seems to blow up at it. I've tried numerous ways of doing this
>> syntactically and I always end up with errors. The current error I'm
> getting
>> is:
>>
>> Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
>>
>> The line is of course the line where I'm assigning the variable.
>>
>> What am I missing in regards to using session variables within a class?
> Any
>> help is appreciated.
>>
>>
> Since $_SESSION is a superglobal do you really need to assign it to
> $username?
>
> or at least try:
>
> var $username = '';
>
> function set_user_session()
> {
> if (isset($_SESSION['username']) && !empty($_SESSION['username']))
> {
> $this->username = $_SESSION['username'];
> }
> else
> {
> $this->username = NULL; // or whatever you want
> }
> }
>
> Norm
>
>
Yup - that did it. I actually just killed the username var off and used
$_SESSION['username'] throughout my application. I guess I didn't really
think about it being global already... I'm new to PHP classes, so it's good
to get this knowledge in. Thanks a ton for the help guys :)
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