Question

I have a session for login data, and I am trying to take it and put it into a variable to shorten whenever I want to echo or use the ID, Username, or Email. What is happening is that now I have it in a variable, but when I echo it, it shows it in an array.

Here is my variable data.

$User = htmlentities(ucwords($_SESSION['user']['username']));
$Email = htmlentities($_SESSION['user']['email'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

If I echo any of these, it returns “Array”.

EDIT

I fixed my solution by changing how I get my $_SESSION data, and using unset to get rid of the array. Now I can just do this,

$User  = $_SESSION['user']["username"];
$Email = $_SESSION['user']["email"]; 

Thank you for reminding me about how I’m even getting my session data in the first place =]

Answer 1

If you are using classes, where you specify all your variables, maybe try this:

$User  = $_SESSION['user']->username;
echo $User;

where user is your class and username is your variable
WHen you add it to your session, you need to do soething like this:

    $_SESSION['user'] = new user();
    $_SESSION['user']->username= 'whatever value it is';