advanced forms in included php - part 2

Well I followed all your hints and ideas and what I can tell you is that whether I try $_POST or $_GET, both show up empty in my include script.

my code is here http://jons.dotnet.com/sitebuilder/objects/form.obj.php

look at the include, the $_POST is avaliable in the object but as soon as I skip into the included file (making sure I get the php tags) it loses scope!!!

WHY?????

your site is downed!

SORRY, I forgot the port change!

The link is here
http://jons.dotnet.com:8080/sitebuilder/objects/form.obj.php

I will looking to using sessions, thanks.

Sessions - I am totally new to these babies!

Is there a shortcut to just save the info and get to it?

Anyone know a good tutorial on sessions & php, I have zero experience with even the concept, I know the basics of what they are and what they do, but I don't know how they work!!!

well... is this short enough for u?
[highlight=php]
// to set:
$_SESSION['foo']="bar";

// to get:
echo $_SESSION['foo'];

Do you have to use the session_start()
stuff???

anyway, I set up an example adding the session_start etc.

I added each item into the $_SESSION variable

$_SESSION[$this->name] = $POST[$this->name];

then I checked

print $_SESSION[$this->name];

contents were fine.

then I go into my include and low and behold do
$_SESSION['name'];

and nothing outputs!!!

so it appears I am losing scope on the $_SESSION object too!

what I am trying to do which is so complicated?????

try "print $_SESSION['name'];"

my mistake, I forgot to add the print in the post, of course I did the print in the code.

So any other ideas?

Often although I am dealing with variables in scopes like $_POST, $_GET, $_SESSION, etc, I don't like referencing them in my general code since down the road I may want to change which scope I am going to use, so what I do is pull everything out of the scope at the beginning of the page.

i.e.


This way I only need to reference $myvar in the code from that point on.

The development methodology I use makes regular use of includes, and I haven't had scoping issues doing what I do above to use the variable in files included later in the script.

Perhaps a way for you to handle this would be to have a code snippet like above in the showFormHead() function and then reference the local variable in the included script?

Cheers,
Keith.

obviusly, $this->name and 'name' is not the same... for debuging, try dumping a whole $_SESSION array with var_dump($_SESSION)


also note that u can only registrer global variables...

from the http://php.net/session-register

I tried use see what $_SESSION was storing, and it came back with an empty array

also I have tried to use variables from the main file inside an include and none have scope.

regarding each page, if you notice, the screen class is used for every page I create, so it will be on every page.

as for the fact that that I did not reference correctly, and the two diffs were not the same - let me assure you they are.
Thanks for the help, keep trying.

wat version php you got running there?

PHP version 4.12

I seem to have stumped a great deal of people, guess I will have to think creativly, what would be the best way around this? write the info to the files?

why o why do I always have the impossible problems!!!

Well, I see everyone here has given up, I tried everything $_POST, sessions, the code is right and still nothing, can;t seem to transfer variables to my included script.

maybe I can ask the php development, someone said includes are buggy.

I will make a new topic to see if anyone can think of a different why to do it.