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Asked: 2026-05-12T21:34:09+00:00

im new to sessions but from what i see it complicated to apply <input>

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im new to sessions but from what i see it complicated to apply <input> with them. can you please look at this code and tell me why its not working. i had it working earlier then it died on me. the function of the program is to fill out a form and have it verified for legit information using regular expressions, i just need help with getting the sessions to save the data. 

<?php session_start(); ?> 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>regex</title>


</head>

<body>

<?php

$fname = $_REQUEST['fname'];

$fname = $_SESSION['fname'];


print<<<form

<form method="post"  action="">

  <input type ="text"
             name="fname"
             value="">

    <input type ="submit">

</form>

form;

$_SESSION['fname'] = $fname;

 print $_SESSION['fname'];


?>

</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Timothy,
    Change your code so that it checks if the session/request is empty or not

    Something like:

    if(isset($_REQUEST['fname'])){
  $fname = $_REQUEST['fname'];
}else if(isset($_SESSION['fname'])){
  $fname = $_SESSION['fname'];
}
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