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I have the following php code below...

if ($username == 'fredk')
{ $fname = 'Fred'; }
else if ($username == 'arbonk')
{ $fname = 'Arbon'; }
else if ($username == 'arsalana')
{ $fname = 'Arsalan'; }
else if ($username == 'minhn')
{ $fname = 'Minh'; }
else if ($username == 'nathanielg')
{ $fname = 'Nathaniel'; }

$msg = "Hi $fname, your login was successfull. <p></p>";

All i want to do is pass the $fname variable onto the next php page. On the same page I also have a form and when the submit button is clicked it goes onto the next page.

Anyone have any ideas??

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  • The questions gets confusing when you mention the form. Do you want to use the form to pass the value via a hidden input? Commented Jan 27, 2010 at 4:39
  • I don't get why people are downvoting the session answers. It is really the only way to do it. That or cookies. Commented Jan 27, 2010 at 4:59
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    Got your dupe right here: stackoverflow.com/questions/871858/… Commented Jan 27, 2010 at 5:08
  • Those answers are more comments, if even half-done attempts at an answer. They're the equivalent of RTFM. @cha Commented Jan 27, 2010 at 5:52

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Look into sessions. They're used for the exact reason in your example (persistent login credential data + more).

session_start(); // Do this at the very start of your script (on both pages).
$_SESSION['your_key_here'] = 'blah'; // value may be an object as well.

on the next page you can access it:

print_r($_SESSION['your_key_here']);
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You don't have to use print_r() if you know the key, you can just echo $_SESSION['your_key_here'];
The point was to demonstrate that you can store various objects there as well, not simply primitives. Of course, there's nuances as some objects can't be serialized/pickled trivially.
I will need to look into how sessions works, thanks for you help and pointing me in the right direction.
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Put it into the session.

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yeah, Im going to try and do something with session
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Session is the way to do that...

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yeah, Im going to try and do something with session
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Or you can put the variable into the form as a hidden variable

<input type='hidden' name='who' value='$fname>

but, this is just for completeness sake,

I would probably use a session myself.

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yeah, Im going to try and do something with sessions, thanks don
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use session variable and put the fname in session.

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yeah, Im going to try and do something with sessions, thanks praveen
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Looks like you need to use $_POST

for example if this is your form code:

<form action="page.php" method="post">
    <input name="fname" type="hidden" value="$fname" />
</form>

On page.php you would retrieve the fname variable like so:

$fname = $_POST['fname'];
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The name is already known; there's no need to enter it again.
Changed the type to a hidden field and used the name as the value.
since i already have another form on the page, i think that it makes more sense (for me at least) to try and use sessions as Koobz has advised.
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Where does $username come from? Could you perhaps write a function that takes $username as a parameter and returns $fname, and call it on both pages?

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