Hye developers, please sort me out, I have two php files, in the first file (login.php) I declared a session variable $_SESSION['email']; and assigned user input into it, and in the second file, I place a select query and use that session variable to compare a database column in the where clause of the query, but the session variable is reporting undefined index in the index.php file
I actually want the query to check if the database column is marthar then echo some html elements
login.php
$email = '".$_POST['email']."';
$_SESSION['email']=$email;
email is the name of my html input
index.php
<?php
$query=mysqli_query($db_handle,"SELECT * FROM members WHERE email='".$_SESSION['email']."'");
$row=mysqli_fetch_array($query);
if(is_array($row)){
if($row['model']=='Marthar'){
echo "<li>
<a href='settings.php' class=' hvr-bounce-to-right'><i class='fa fa-cog nav_icon'></i> <span class='nav-label'>Settings</span> </a>
</li>";
}
}
?>
In your login.php, please use the below and add session_start(); on top of your php page
$email="";
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
$email=$_POST['email'];
} else {
$email='';
}
$_SESSION['email']=$email;
add
session_start();
on top of your index.php and login.php
change
$email = '".$_POST['email']."';
to
$email = $_POST['email'];
add var_dump($_SESSION); in login and index php to make sure that sessions are set and values are there. And add var_dump($_POST); to your login as well
Add session_start() to the top of the second file. That should make the session variable available.