You are going to need to start a session. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php
The idea was to see if $variable was in the session. If it was, use the session variable. I was passing a lot of variables through <input type=hidden> before this, until I learned about sessions. This will get you started. I had a lot of variables, so I used a function. <?php #session_name("TestALS");//not necessary session_start(); $studentid = getvar('studentid'); $idconfirm = getvar('idconfirm'); $familyname = getvar('familyname'); $firstname = getvar('firstname'); $sessionselected = getvar('sessionselected'); $homefac = getvar('homefac'); function getvar ($varname) { global $debug; if (isset ($_POST[$varname])) { $_SESSION[$varname] = $_POST[$varname]; # echo "\$gdebug $debug<br>"; if ($debug == "on"){ echo "_post $varname $_POST[$varname]<br>"; echo "_session0 $varname $_SESSION[$varname]<br>"; } return $_POST[$varname]; } elseif (isset ($_SESSION[$varname])) { # echo "\$hdebug $debug<br>"; if ($debug == "on"){ echo "_SESSION $varname $_SESSION[$varname]<br>"; } return $_SESSION[$varname]; } } ... ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php