Sessions heeeelllllp

[jailbox 0]

Hi. Im making a flatfile chatroom. Ive been making it about a month because I dont understand the sessions. When the user enters the room he/she has to enter a nickname. But when the user enters a message the chatroom "forgets" the nickname. Ive been messing around with sessions but I cant get em to work. Session_start(); thingy is in the right place (at the top). Ive looked through about 10 diferent tutorials but they were useless. How do I make it to pass the nickname variable to multiple pages?And please dont tell me to search google or use php.net because ive already used those.

[Gamesquare 0]

What's the link to the chatroom, and could you post the source code? It would be easier to figure out what's wrong if we could see what you're trying.

[triax 0]

to put something in the session

$_SESSION['variable_name'] = "some_value";

make sure you do not do the following

$variable_name = "another value";

in any part of ur page
it will overwrite the value in ur $_SESSION['variable_name']

[jordanliuhao 0]

I'd like to use session_register

 

<?php

if (!session_is_registered('count')) {

session_register('count');

$count = 1;

} else {

$count++;

}

?>

 

<p>

Hello visitor, you have seen this page <?php echo $count; ?> times.

</p>

 

<p>

To continue, <a href="nextpage.php?<?php echo strip_tags(SID); ?>">click

here</a>.

</p>

 

to put something in the session

$_SESSION['variable_name'] = "some_value";

make sure you do not do the following

$variable_name = "another value";

in any part of ur page

it will overwrite the value in ur $_SESSION['variable_name']

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[stevey 0]

php sessions may be tricky thats why in order to be absolutely sure you have to completely register the session
below is a script that will register the username variable and will be accesssesible throughout the other pages..

<?phpsession_start();session_register('username');$_SESSION['username'] = $username;?>

by doing this then in all other pages below the page that you registered this. the variable username will be available, to test this create another page and do this

<?PHPsession_start();var_dump($_SESSION);?>

YOU WILL see that you have the variable username in the session array.
hope this helps

[karlo 0]

Don't use sessions. Use Cookies.

Use it something like this:

<?phpif (isset($_COOKIE["user"])){?><h3>Welcome back, <span style="color: red;"><?php print $_COOKIE["user"]; ?></span></h3><?php}else {?><form name="form1" method="get">Enter your username: <input name="username" size="15"><br><br><span style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" onclick="form1.submit()">Submit</span></form><?php}if (isset($_GET["username"])){setcookie("user",$_GET["username"],time()+9999); //set cookie to expire at that time you can experiment and add more ++ if you want?><h3>Username set!</h3><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">setTimeout("window.location='./';",2000);</script><?php}?>

Tell me if there's an error and I will correct it.

[ashiezai 0]

or u can try to disable session id ?

try to insert this into the .htaccess file :

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off

[Galahad 0]

Don't use sessions. Use Cookies.

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And what if user has disabled cookies in his browser? Then it won't work. The vest way is to... well, there is actualy a best way, but... just append sessionid when calling a new scrpt:

 

Header('Location: somepage.php?'.SID);

Then in that file call session_start(); and use $_SESSION array to access session variables... That HAS to work

[LuciferStar 0]

SESSION stored on serverCOOKIES stored on clientsession is safer than cookies