Assigning global var to session variable? [closed]

Question

I want to assign the user name to a SESSION variable, yet this is not working.

$_SESSION['loveleytest'] = $user;

$_SESSION['thelovelytest2'] = $user->name;

What should I do?

Answer 1

For assigning user_name to a session variable you would directly do something like

global $user;
$_SESSION['thelovelytest2'] = $user->name;

I think the issue with your code may be:

1. It is not able to retrieve the global $user variable.
2. You might not have defined the global $user variable.
3. Because you did $_SESSION['loveleytest'] = $user, thats why the issue is there.

I am also curious to know which was the exact issue.