Question

i wanted to store username of current logged in user

 mysql_query(" UPDATE  member SET url = 'ques2.php'
WHERE username = '$username' ") or die('Unable to update members URL: ' . mysql_error());

//in this i wanted to update my column url which is the last visited url of the logged in user
i had used this to retireve my username

    while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
{
    //Print $info['username'] ;
    if($info['username']==($fgmembersite->UserName('username')))
    {

        $username=$info['username'];

        break;
    }
}

but it is not retrieving the username of the logged in user AND I WANT TO STORE IT IN VARIBLE SO THAT I CAN RUN MY UPDATE QUERY….what is the problem in my code….please help.

Answer 1

Store it in session:

$_SESSION['username'] = $info['username'];

Then on other pages, you can get it from that:

echo $_SESSION['username'];

Make sure to put session_start() on top of every page where you use it.