Question

I’m trying to get a session variable to be set when clicking on a link.
The value of the variable is generated out of a DB using PHP. I’ve tried everything, but noting seems to work.

There is a foreach-loop that displays usernames. Each username is a link to a second page. The username that is clicked on should become the session variable.
The code that loops looks like this:

echo "<a href= 'nominate.php'> ".$myotherusers['username']. "</a><br/>";

goal being that when clicked on the link this code is executed:

$_SESSION['varname'] = $myotherusers['username'];

I just can’t seem to be able to figure out how…
thanks!

Answer 1

You could do something like this:

echo "<a href='nominate.php?user=".$myotherusers['username'].">".$myotherusers['username']."</a><br />";

and then in your action:

$_SESSION['varname'] = $_GET['user'];