Daily Archives: January 7, 2011

My old ASP habits are sometimes hard to break… I like the simpler redirect equivalent of ASP compared to the PHP header location command: // redirect to thank you page header( ‘Location: /thankyou.php’ ) ; So… I just made a … Continue reading →

Just because you created a session variable in PHP, using this statement: session_start(); // store session variables to designate that the user is successfully logged in! $_SESSION[“login”] = TRUE; $_SESSION[“username”] = $varUserName;    doesn’t mean you can automatically access the $_SESSION(“login”) … Continue reading →

Be careful that you don’t have any extra blank spaces in the PHP file… if you try to do a “redirect”, you’ll get an error. <?php //****************** INCLUDE ******************* include(‘include/common.php’); include(‘include/dbconnect.php’); ?> <?php // check if form submitted if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] … Continue reading →

It’s possible to enable or disable display of error messages in your PHP program by using the command error_reporting(‘some constant’);     // see below for values of constant Errors and Logging Value Constant Description Note 1 E_ERROR (integer) Fatal run-time errors. … Continue reading →