Define User ID Session Variable

Question

I created a login page to authenticate users. The user enters
their email and password to login. At login, I would also like to
select a user id from the same table the email and password are
stored in. How can I add a session variable for the user id?
Here is the code created by Dreamweaver:

Answer 1

Are these functions on the same page? Will you be using this
variable on
other pages?
What you have described should work fine. Can you test it by
placing -
<?php echo "user id = " . $_SESSION['User_ID'];exit();
?>
immediately after your assignment code?
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"chris.cavage" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> After logging into my site, I need to have the User_ID
from the mysql
> table be
> saved as another session variable so I can reference the
user later.
>
> I added this to my page:
>
> <?php $_SESSION['User_ID'] =
$row_Recordset1['User_ID'] ?>
>
> My first recordset is table1 (has member information in
it).
>
> I then created a recordset from table2 (has the user_id
and financial info
> there): recordset2 filters the field "User_ID" based on
the session
> variable,
> "User_ID".
>
> I am then trying to insert information from that
recordset, but nothing
> happens.
>
> I did start the session at the top of the page. What can
I do
> differently?
>