Isnt it better to do it in this way?
session_start();
session_register('USER');
$USER['valid'] = true;
$USER['firstname'] = $first_name;
$USER['lastname'] = $last_name;
Then I really know what I am doing!
Good luck
Sascha
----- Original Message -----
From: "1LT John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pushpinder Singh Garcha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] help needed with session variables
> Are you sure $first_name and $last_name have a value? Double check...
>
> ---John Holmes...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pushpinder Singh Garcha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 4:44 PM
> Subject: [PHP] help needed with session variables
>
>
> hello,
>
> I am making use of sessions in my PHp/MySQL Database application. When
> the user is successfully authenticated against the database, a session
> is created in following manner:
>
>
> session_register("valid_user","firstname","lastname");
>
> $valid_user = $login;
> $firstname = $first_name;
> $lastname = $last_name;
>
> While I am able to use the $valid_user variable all thru the sesion ,
> when I try to use the $valid_user it works fine (i.e. I am able to
> access the value) throughout the session, however when I try to use the
> other two registered session variables i.e firstname and lastname, I
> am not able to extract the value. Can you suggest what might be going
> wrong. Note I am locally testing the setup on my Mac.
>
> Many Thanks
> Pushpinder Singh Garcha
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