PHP pain continues unabated. I'm working with an ANTIQUE script from somewhere... we can tell its an antique because its trying to use $_HTTP_POST_VARS instead of $_POST that was easy enough to find and fix but its also trying to use sessions to shift values to subsequent script portions.

I've never come across sessions before, and so far as I can tell they aren't working despite entering values into the post form the contents remain steadfastly empty. So its not letting anyone log in or create themselves a user.

Suggestions? I s'pose the top one is find a more recent trivia game, although this one seems to otherwise fit the bill. Is there anything obviously wrong with this?

session_start();

if (empty($_SESSION))
{
$_SESSION['action'] = $strAction = "Create New User";
}
else
{
if (strlen(trim($_SESSION['name'])) > 0)
{
$strName = $_SESSION['name'];
$_SESSION['action'] = $strAction = "Change Password";
}
else
{
$strName = "";
$_SESSION['action'] = $strAction = "Create New User";
}

if (!empty($_SESSION['message']))
{
$strMessage = trim($_SESSION['message']);
}
}


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Re: PHP Trivia
By: Spectre to Anybody on Mon Sep 21 2020 06:59 pm

Howdy,

although this one seems to otherwise fit the bill. Is there anything obviously wrong with this?

There doesnt appear to be anything unusual with that snippet of PHP.

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There doesnt appear to be anything unusual with that snippet of PHP.

It doesn't appear to be getting the session variables across... I might have ot go and have a look at the naming.

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There doesnt appear to be anything unusual with that snippet of PHP.

Well assuming all the sessions code is right, I went back an started trying to follow the logic of the thing again... It was running afoul of another couple of $_HTTP_POST_VARS statements after another post form further in. Seems to be reasonably functional now. I just have to get some questions in place to test further.

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