Assign a Session value to a variable 1

[WilliamMute007]

Hi guys,

I've this little dilema. I have been trying for hours now to assign my session value to a variable but no luck. Can anyone please help if possible?

    <input type="hidden" name="item_name_$i" value=".$_SESSION['name']."/>

Option two

$restaurant = . $_SESSION['name'];

Both options keep giving me errors. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Vragabond]

What are the errors you're getting? It's impossible to see what exactly you're doing from the short snippets you provided. Please let us know of the errors you're seeing and provide longer examples (is the first code inside an echo or print statement? why are you concatenating the session in the second example?)

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[jpadie]

 $restaurant = . $_SESSION['name'];

what do you expect this to achieve? i.e. what output are you intending? from the information you have provided i suspect that the dot is extraneous.

 <input type="hidden" name="item_name_$i" value=".$_SESSION['name']."/>

remember all html attributes should be enclosed in double quotes. so the above would look better like this

echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name_$i\" value=\"$_SESSION[name]\"/>";

or using concatenation, like this

echo '<input type="hidden" name="item_name_'.$i.'" value="'.$_SESSION['name'].'"/>';

and lastly remember that that session variables are only available once a session has been instantiated. So you MUST call session_start() prior to (i) outputting any data to the browser; and (ii) using $_SESSION

 

[WilliamMute007]

Thanks Justin,

Nice one once more!

Much Appreciated