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];
        }
}

...
?>


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