Hi

I have a page that deals with a couple of forms and so there a a few requests that call the same page and out put results accorrdingly.

When the page is called , i run the below script at top of email.php

 if (!isset($_SESSION['callname'])) {       /* so if session varibale not exist */  /* this seems to be always being true where as it should be false after i have set it */
   session_start();                                                                              
   $_SESSION['callname'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
 }

My problem is $_SESSION['compNumber'] is set correctly the first time email.php however, as email.php is a form, when the submit button is hit, email.php is re requested and $_SESSION['compNumber'] is reset to be email.php and NOT the calling page i wanted to keep a record of.

could someone please help with this lol. So frustrating

steve

hi there,

why not put a hidden field in your form ... and then in that code you pasted above, just wrap another if statement around it .. so it would be .. if form hidden field not present .. go session fill, else don't bother.

ya know ?

ok
2 ?'s

When you say don't bother do you mean that session variables can not be maintained easilly across pages?

secondly,

I tried on another page to use a hidden field but got zammed cause the form is output using print

So , how do i pass a value in to a hidden field thats output using the print command

code goes

print '<form action="#">
                   <input type="hidden" name="compI" value="$varName">'

$varName always comes out as $varName and not the value it contains.

Any help would be appreciated.

Try '.$varName.' should work

hi,

when I said dont bother.. I was talking as the code.. the code should not bother to assign (reset) the session var if the hidden value is there.

Second thing, the reason your only getting $varName printed to page is becuase that is the value, not the name.. you have ..

<input type="hidden" name="compI" value="$varName">'

you should be printing $compI to the page ... right now $varName is the value.. as it is in the value tag