Question

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The issue I am having is being unable to show the users name in their post. Quick snip of code.

if (isset($_SESSION['username']) )
{ 
$name = $_SESSION['username'];
}
else 
{
$name = $_POST['name']; 
}

How can I make it when the user posts it check to see if there is a session and then displays their name in their post.

Answer 1

There’s nothing particularly wrong with what you’ve done here. Does $_SESSION[‘username’] actually have a value?

Also, make sure when you are working with sessions that you call session_start() before saving or pulling session data.

    <?php
    session_start();

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

    if (isset($_SESSION['username']) )
    { 
    $name = $_SESSION['username'];
    }