Help with Passing Variables to Relational Web Pages

sock_s wrote:
> Thanks for the input. I was finally able to link my relational pages. One new
> error I encountered is the variables are not passed consistently to the pages.

With the small snippet of code that you have shown, it's a wonder that
any information is being passed.

> <?php session_start();
> $_REQUEST['user']; <--------- This does nothing
> $StudentID = $_SESSION['user'];
> $_REQUEST['FamilyID1']; <----------- This does nothing
> $FamilyID1 = $_SESSION['FamilyID1']; ?>
> <?php require_once('../../Connections/MySQL.php'); ?>

What are you trying to do here? The two $_REQUEST variables do nothing.
You're also assigning the value of $_SESSION variables to ordinary
variables. Is that what you want to do? If so, is it really necessary?
The value is already held in the $_SESSION variable, so you would
normally use just that.

If you're trying to store a value passed through a form, you should
normally do it like this:

<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_POST['user'])) {
$_SESSION['user'] = $_POST['user'];
}
?>

$_SESSION['user'] is then available on all pages that begin with
session_start().

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Thanks for the input. I was finally able to link my relational pages. One new error I encountered is the variables are not passed consistently to the pages. Sometimes my tables are populated with sporatic Null values for some of the session variables. Other times I run the application and things work great any ideas.
Code is from session page on line 1

<?php session_start();
$_REQUEST['user'];
$StudentID = $_SESSION['user'];
$_REQUEST['FamilyID1'];
$FamilyID1 = $_SESSION['FamilyID1']; ?>
<?php require_once('../../Connections/MySQL.php'); ?>

Put the data in session variables.

On each page add the line below to the top of the page (line 1):

<?php session_start(); ?>

On the first page, put the id in the session variable:

<?php $_SESSION['user'] = $rs_recordset['id_field']; ?>

or similar, according to where your getting the id from.

On the session page, use $_SESSION['user'] to filter the database table to
pull up the record linked to the id held in session "user"

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>
> The relationships are set up in MYSQL, but how can you pass
> variables so it can populate the tables properly?

I use passing by url a lot but if the data is more sensitve I would say
passing as a session variable.