Registering Session

[Ralph Guzman]

I have a shopping cart checkout form where I am using GET to specify
payment method from payment_method.php page.

So I have something like the following:

From payment_method.php the user chooses payment method by clicking on a
payment link that then send them to the checkout_form.php

checkout_form.php?form=cc for credit card
checkout_form.php?form=ch for credit check
checkout_form.php?form=ph for phone

since checkout_form is broken down into multiple forms, I am using
session_register to set form type in checkout_form.php

$form_type = $_GET['form'];
session_register('form_type');

The problem is that at times it registers $form_type properly as 'cc,
ch, or ph', but other times it registers $form_type as 'Object'.

Why is it registering sessiong as 'Object'. Anybody experience similar
problem?

[Curt Zirzow]

* Thus wrote Ralph Guzman (ralph@nqionline.com):

> I have a shopping cart checkout form where I am using GET to specify
> payment method from payment_method.php page.
>
> So I have something like the following:
>
> From payment_method.php the user chooses payment method by clicking on a
> payment link that then send them to the checkout_form.php
>
> checkout_form.php?form=cc for credit card
> checkout_form.php?form=ch for credit check
> checkout_form.php?form=ph for phone
>
> since checkout_form is broken down into multiple forms, I am using
> session_register to set form type in checkout_form.php
>
> $form_type = $_GET['form'];
> session_register('form_type');
>
> The problem is that at times it registers $form_type properly as 'cc,
> ch, or ph', but other times it registers $form_type as 'Object'.

You did read all the documentation on session_register right? I
would avoid using session_register because of its ability to be
dangerous. Instead use the $_SESSION[] method of using session.

session_start();
$_SESSION['form_type'] = $_GET['form'];



Curt
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