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September 4th, 2003, 04:11 PM

scrubbler

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passing arrays from page to page

Hello, I'm learning this stuff very slowly so please take nothing (my knowledge) for granted ;p.

I'm trying to pass an associative array from one page to another so that I can retreave what ever values I need when ever I need them.

I can do this varaible by variable, but that seems a bit tedious.

Thanx in advance :]

PHP Code:


		
			
// this is the php script that creates an array for all of my users info.

// the array is called $getinfo.

<?

require ('auth.inc');

$query = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE sessID = "' . $_COOKIE['alpha8'] . '"';

$result = mysql_query ($query);

$getinfo = mysql_fetch_assoc ($result);

header ('Location: flash.php?userinfo=' .($getinfo);

?>



// This is the page where im trying to retreive the value of one of the indices (variables) in my array getinfo[].



<head>

    <title>Page 2</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />

</head>

<body>

    <a href="getinfo.php">page 1</a>

        <?

        echo $userinfo[myVariable];

        ?>

</body>

</html>

September 4th, 2003, 04:52 PM

dhouston

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I'd be pretty surprised if that worked. You should consider using sessions, which will allow you to pass objects and arrays around. Failing that, I guess you could use the serialize() function to convert your array to a string, pass the string in your query string, and use unserialize in the second page to extract the values. You'd probably run into url length issues if the array got too big. Go with sessions, I say, or just pass the user id to the next page and do your query again (or better yet, do the query only on the second page after determining that the given user is logged in).

September 4th, 2003, 07:09 PM

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thanx

Thank you ... boy this stuff sure is different than what I'm used to . (Flash ActionScript)

In ActionScrit you just scope the name of your array wherever you like (movieclip/_level/etc.) and then access any index at will. There are no associative arrays in ActionScript though... I wish there were.

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