accessing variable after refresh

[swati]

I have a link which when clicked opens a popup window. Thru the link i m passing a variable 'name' and accessing it in the popup window by first writing @extract($_GET) and
echo $name;
but after i refresh the page i lose its value. How can i preserve its value after every refresh?

Swati

[baze22]

You could use sessions to store it.

//untested
session_start();
if (isset($_GET['name'])){
 $_SESSION['name'] = $_GET['name'];
}
if (isset($_SESSION['name'])){
 $name = $_SESSION['name'];
}

baze