nike_guy_man — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:58:49 +0000

I use sessions for my site for dynamic info
I'd suggest using that

zollet — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:19:08 +0000

You could also use sessions. If you've compiled PHP with --enable-trans-sid, then if the user don't accept cookies, it will automatically put the session info in the URL. Very useful feature. Also this way you don't store any information on the user's computer, everything is stored on the server.

cds — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:13:08 +0000

In response to nike_guy_man:
If they were static variables like my example, yes you could, but in the real world scenario that I need to start converting, the variables are all dynamic, are different for each user and used in a shopping cart to identify user info throughout the various cart scripts.

In response to zollett:
Cookies are an option, but isn't really the way I want to pass variables. Have discovered that there are always a few people out there that think cookies are the "Great Evil" and disable them. Shopping cart uses cookies now, but in a very limited basis and never in an important area of the cart. Just to identify returning customers. All important areas currently pass the variables in the link url or via form input.

zollet — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:58:32 +0000

If you would like to use cookies, here's some simple sample of code..

<?php
// In test.php
  setcookie(\"foo\", \"foo\");
  setcookie(\"bar\", \"bar\");

// Or a little more advanced..
  setcookie(\"foo\", \"foo\", \"\", \"/\", \"domain.com\");
  setcookie(\"bar\", \"bar\", \"\", \"/\", \"domain.com\");


// In test2.php
  $foo = $_COOKIE[\"foo\"];
  $bar = $_COOKIE[\"bar\"];
?>

You can find more information about cookies on http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

nike_guy_man — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:49:22 +0000

You could use include/require or something like it

<?php
test2.php:

require('test.php');
?>

How's that work for you?