Help with php session variables

Question

I am using Dreamweaver 8 to set up a dynamic app with PHP and
MySQL. I want the code that the user logs in with ('UPN') to be
stored as a session variable so that recordsets on subsequent pages
can be set to display personalised data.
I have set the session variable like this: $_SESSION['UPN'] =
'UPN' (UPN is the name of the form textfield, also set as the
username for logging in)
On the data page, I have called the variable like this:
$query_Recordset1 = ("SELECT pupils.pupilID, pupils.UPN,
pupils.forename, pupils.surname FROM pupils WHERE UPN = '" .
$_SESSION['UPN'] . "'");
The recordset returns nothing- the dynamic table returns ony
the column headings (both as headings and immediately under where
you would expect the data to be).
Can anyone help?
Thanks

Answer 1

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:43:04 +0000 (UTC), "denman"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have set the session variable like this:
$_SESSION['UPN'] = 'UPN' (UPN is
>the name of the form textfield, also set as the username
for logging in)
Your code assigns the literal string UPN to the session
variable. If
it's coming from POSTed form data, you'd need to do it like:
$_SESSION['UPN'] = $_POST['UPN'];
Gary