[FX.php List] sessions with FX.php

[DC]

This is more of a PHP question... you may find better advice on that 
mailing list.

also here is the link for the manual page:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

look at this function at php.net
session_start();
defaults to session off on browser quit.

to set a session timeout to be 1 hour:
ini_set("session.cookie_lifetime", 60*60);

set session var from POST var:
$_SESSION['variable_name']=$_POST['login'];

use session variables in an FX.php find like this:
$query->addDBParam('fieldname', $_SESSION['variable_name'])

be careful to have a timeout since students often share computers and 
won't log out of your system even if you tell them to do so after they 
are done.

HTH,
DC

Jane Chinn had written:
> Hello,
> 
> I have Filemaker Server 7 and Filemaker Developer 7.
> 
> I previously developed a solution with a two related databases in FM6 
> and CDML.  The first database was for a list of students with last name 
> and student id (password). Tokens were set to pass the last name and 
> student ID values to the second database which was a peer evaluation 
> form with related fields from the login database.  Each student was to 
> evaluate each of the members in their group.  Each group member ends up 
> with several records that are evaluations of individual group members. 
> These can later be searched by the instructor.
> 
> I'm thinking to do the conversion using FX.php I would have to register 
> session variables when doing a find for the student logging in.  I would 
> then like to have the login session variables pass to  the next page and 
> submit into the evaluation database.  How would I start a session  for 
> the student name and id with FX.php and have the session varaibles pass 
> into the second related evaluation database on the next page which 
> creates a new record.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jane
> 
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