Get username from $_SESSION

Question

I am trying to get the username of my users to echo out but only seeing the userID or if I try to echo the username it gives me the string length rather than the actual name.

Answer 1

the reason you do not see the user name in:

$_SESSION['username']

is because you never put it there.

you need to assign the user name to the session like so:

$_SESSION['username']=$email;

you can then echo $_SESSION['username']; where ever you want the username displayed.

make sure on any page you use sessions you have session_start(); before any output.