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Php Session Variable Not Parsing But Isset Says It Is Running & At 0

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Ok, so I have a counter which simply counts up a second at a time.This second counter I want it to be my session variable.Is this a bad idea? Also when I do a isset on my second pa

Solution 1:

Haven't seen your html but you might be missing something to start and run the timer function - this might be missing:

<bodyonload="intTimer = setInterval(function(){ countUP() }, 1000);">

Also I am not quite clear how you are submitting the page but I can't see anything that passes the value of the timer to the session variable. If you put a form on your page with a submit button then you could pick up the value of a hidden input with its value being set with javascript. You could submit the page automatically using submit(); in your javascript when the counter reaches a certain number if you want that:

page1.html (could be called page1,php but there is no php in page 1 so that is not actually necessary)

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Page 1</title><scriptlanguage="javascript">var intTimer = '';   
   var counter = 0;

   functioncountUP(){
   counter++; //increment the counter by 1//display the new value in the divdocument.getElementById("timer_container").innerHTML = "Session Time Counter: " + counter;
   document.getElementById("tim_val").value = counter;
   }
    </script></head><bodyonload="intTimer = setInterval(function(){ countUP() }, 1000);"><formname="form"id="form"action="page2.php"method="post"><inputtype="hidden"id="tim_val"name="tim_val"value="" /><inputtype="submit"name="submit"/></form><divid="timer_container">Session Time Counter: 0</div></body></html>

You aren't referencing $_SESSION["counter"] on page 1 and you are initialising to 0 not 100 in your JavaScript.

In your page 2 script page2.php you would have this - you could also submit this page to itself if only a part of the content is to be changed but the timer needs to continue or be logged at the point of submission.

<?php session_start();?><!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Page 2</title><?phpif(!isset($_SESSION["counter"])){
//if not, initiate this variable with 100            $_SESSION["counter"] = 100; 
}else{
// give it the posted value$_SESSION["counter"] = (int) $_POST['tim_val']; 
}  
?><scriptlanguage="javascript">clearInterval(intTimer);
var intTimer = '';  
var counter = <?phpecho$_SESSION["counter"]; ?>;
functioncountUP(){
counter++; //increment the counter by 1//display the new value in the divdocument.getElementById("timer_container").innerHTML = "Session Time Counter: " + counter;
document.getElementById("tim_val").value = counter;
}
</script></head><bodyonload="intTimer = setInterval(function(){ countUP() }, 1000);"><formname="form"id="form"action="page2.php"method="post"><inputtype="hidden"id="tim_val"name="tim_val"value="<?phpecho$_SESSION["counter"]; ?>" /><inputtype="submit"name="submit"/></form><divid="timer_container">Session Time Counter: <?phpecho$_SESSION["counter"]; ?></div></body></html>

And in your page2.php JavaScript you would need to clearInterval() and restart it. http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_clearinterval.asp

var counter=<?phpecho intval($_SESSION["counter"]);?>; //initiates score to submitted value

You probably won't need to use a session variable as you are using the hidden input, so you could use:

var counter=<?phpecho intval($_POST["counter"]);?>; //initiates score

You could also add 1 to it to approximately account for the delay submitting it 

var counter = <?phpecho$_SESSION["counter"] + 1; ?>;
    var counter=<?phpecho intval($_POST["tim_val"] + 1);?>; //initiates score

You could stick with using GET but I just prefer POST.

This has a bit more about hidden inputs: Get and echo inputs from textarea repeatedly

and a bit more about the timer script: http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_timing_clock

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