I have a script that creates server session variables.
I need to insert 2 of these variables into a simple form (on a php page) using hidden form fields.
<?php
session_start();
?><pre><?php
print_r($_SESSION);
?>
I created a simple php page with the code above. I can see the session variables easily on the page, as you can see in this part of the code I copied from the page:
[login] => andrew8855
[pass] => $P$BIsPUTQ/e4mJSlaDsRLA48mB20xxIC1
[email] => andrew@mysiteaddress.com
[name_f] => Andrew
[name_l] =>
[street] =>
[street2] =>
[city] =>
In the custom form, I need to get/print the variables from above into the form as so:
<input type="hidden" name="login_email" id="login_email" value="[email]" />
<input type="hidden" name="login_user" id="login_user" value="[login]" />
So when the form is submitted, the variables that exist in the session will be submitted in the hidden form fields.
After searching for hours, I found that I might be able to do this somehow with session_start();....but I'm not clear about how to accomplish this. Thank you for any suggestions.
A session is started with the session_start() function.
Session variables are set with the PHP global variable: $_SESSION.
if you are not using any automatic session handling framework ...if you use your own script then you have to must start session before it use.you can try
<?php
// Start the session<br/>
session_start();
?>
which is set beginning of your script.after that you can use session variables.
Change your html template as such :
<input type="hidden" name="login_email" id="login_email" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['email'];?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="login_user" id="login_user" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['login'];?>" />
Since PHP 5.4 the inline echo short tags are always enabled regardless of the short_open_tag (php.ini) setting.
if it's not enable then please Set
short_open_tag=On in php.ini
after that restart your Apache server then you can use
<?=$_SESSION['email']?>
instead of :
<?php echo $_SESSION['email'];?>
you can try http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_sessions.asp for session.i think it's helpful for you.
and How to enable PHP short tags? for enable php short tags.
Change your html template as such :
<input type="hidden" name="login_email" id="login_email" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['email'];?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="login_user" id="login_user" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['login'];?>" />
Note that if you have short_open_tags
enabled you can do :
<?=$_SESSION['email']?>
instead of :
<?php echo $_SESSION['email'];?>
<?php
// I suppose (and I can tell by the code you wrote that it is so) that you already have some values
// in the $_SESSION array
session_start();
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"login_email\" id=\"login_email\" value=\"" . $_SESSION['email'] . "\"";
?>
Maybe there's something wrong with the "" and backslashes, but the idea is that you have to put as value $_SESSION['mail'] (or login)