Question

Hello I have developed a small menu bar in jsp which collects attribute of a session and displays menu according to it.

<li><%
        String myname =  (String)session.getAttribute("name");           
        if(myname!=null && !myname.equals("admin"))                {

             %>
             <a href="logout.jsp" ><span>Logout</span></a></li>
             <li><span>Welcome <%=myname%></span></li>
             <%
            }
        else if(myname!=null && myname.equals("admin"))
            {

             %>
             <a href="logout.jsp" ><span>Logout</span></a></li>
             <li><span>Welcome Admin</span></li>

I want this same code in php .I tried it but in vain as I am newbie to php.So my question is how to get session attribute as name and password, in php ?

Answer 1

You need to access the session using $_SESSION superglobal. You may call session_start(); before that to start the session if not already started.

<?php $myname =  $_SESSION['name'];           
if (!empty($myname) && $myname != 'admin'): ?>
    <a href="logout.jsp" ><span>Logout</span></a></li>
    <li><span>Welcome <?php echo $myname; ?></span></li>
<?php else if (!empty($myname) && $myname == 'admin'): ?>
    <a href="logout.jsp" ><span>Logout</span></a></li>
    <li><span>Welcome Admin</span></li>
<?php endif; ?>