Carrying information through multiple pages

[FayeN]

I am designing an electronic voting system with PHP, mysql and apache. It is for an university. So right now you can vote for president, vice president, and senators based on your college. At the end I would like to be able to have a page that says

The president you voted for was_____
The vice president you voted was ____

To do this I will create a table with the user starts to vote creating a voter ID.. then I would like to be able to query the table on that page but I am not sure how I will match up the table with the above format.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[edited by: jatar_k at 4:36 am (utc) on Nov. 4, 2003]
[edit reason] spliced 2 posts together [/edit]

[mapostel]

Hi FayeN,

For tracking and keeping state across several pages sessions are most common with PHP.

But of course you could also use a table to keep track of a user's activities, and a session could the be used to identify the user.

The PHP documentation has some information about sessions.

Hope this helps ...

[jatar_k]

Maybe try looking through these functions
PHP Session Handling Functions [ca3.php.net]

[FayeN]

I am designing an electronic voting system with PHP, mysql and apache. It is for an university. So right now you can vote for president, vice president, and senators based on your college. At the end I would like to be able to have a page that says

The president you voted for was_____
The vice president you voted was ____

To do this I will create a table with the user starts to vote creating a voter ID.. then I would like to be able to query the table on that page but I am not sure how I will match up the table with the above format.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[bobnew32]

Lets say you store the ids in sessions. Heres how you'd do it

<?php

session_start();

$_SESSION['pres_id']= $pres_id;
?>

Then on the page you want to view it (and all pages on the site must have session_start said or else the session will fail)

<?php

session_start();

$pres_id= $_SESSION['pres_id'];

if($pres_id=='1')
{
$pres_name= 'George Washington';
}
elseif($pres_id=='2')
{
$pres_name= 'John Adams';
}

?>

You get the idea. Plus if its stored in a mysql table, you can use the following code to get started with that.

<?php
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE pres_id = $pres_id";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

print $row['name'];
?>

I gave you some info to start with, have fun with it. Change it, intermingle it and learn from it! ^^