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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/22/06 21:29
christopher.j.just@gmail.com wrote:
> christopher.j.just@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>
>>>christopher.j.just@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>flamer die.spam@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>christopher.j.just@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> > I was using this which I believe accomplishes the same thing:
>>> >
>>> > session_start();
>>> > $_SESSION['firstname'] = $_POST['firstname'];
>>> >
>>> > 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 = $_SESSION['firstname'];
>>>
>>>The default settings in the php.ini file often work fine. Just look at
>>>the session entries. It's pretty well documented.
>>>
>>>The biggest problem I've seen is the session.save_path must point to a
>>>directory where the web server (if you're not using the CGI version of
>>>PHP) must have read/write access.
>>>
>>>P.S. Please don't top post. Thanks.
>>>
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>>>Remove the "x" from my email address
>>>Jerry Stuckle
>>>JDS Computer Training Corp.
>>>jstucklex@attglobal.net
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>>
>>I've looked and the session.save_path is read/write accessable, but the
>>majority of the session are blank so I'm not sure where I went wrong.
>>I'm using just this basic form at the moment:
>>
>> <?php // text1.php
>>session_start();
>>$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'];
No, not necessary.
> // 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'];
>
You just wiped out your $_SESSION values here. You didn't post these
values to this page, did you?
> 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";firstname|N;lastname|N;title|N;institution|N;street|N;city|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.
>
Hope this helps.
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