Try setting this variable as a session.
Here is a piece of code used once a user has been validated against a MySQL
dbase. ($uname was assigned from the login.html page)
<?
session_start();
$_SESSION['valid_user'] = $uname;
?>
Then, on each page that requires a preson to be logged in to access, this
goes at the top:
<?
//start the session
session_start();
//see if this person is 'valid_user', if not, redirect to LOGIN.HTML
if (!isset($_SESSION['valid_user'])){
header( "Location: login.html" );
}
//if he is 'valid_user' then load the page as normal
else {
?>
NORMAL PAGE CODE HERE
//allows me to assign a the info from 'valid_user' to a variable
$uname=($_SESSION['valid_user']);
<?
//end ELSE statement
}
?>
"Cam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Through past releases of PHP, I've developed with global variables on.
> These days it's becoming the trend, for security & asthetics purposes, to
> turn global variables off... Let's say I have a $status variable that
> changes depending upon the user's actions on the previous page and
displays
> a message...
>
> Is there a way to propagate this variable through pages without 1)
declaring
> it as a global, 2) writing it to a cookie, 3) passing it through the URL
or
> 4) passing it through a form w/ POST?
>
> 1-globals are now off
> 2-cookie writing is impracical & no desire to store 1 time information
> client side
> 3-displaying the status message in the URL (or a status id) would look
> unprofessional and allow for user manipulation of the message they see by
> editing the URL string
> 4-not all my site's page transitions occur through forms, so I see no way
to
> use $_POST every time
>
> I appreciate any suggestions & hearing your thoughts,
>
> Cam
>
>
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