php mysql - 将user_id添加到会话变量

Question

When I register a user I add them to a database and they get an id which is auto generated by auto_increment. Now I'm trying to add that id to a session variable so I can use it on other pages in the website and manipulate their row in the database. This is what I have so far.

This line adds the form inputs to the db when the user registers:

$insert = mysql_query("INSERT INTO users (`email`, `password`) VALUES ('example','values'))");

Then I'm trying to get the user_id into a variable that I can use on other pages of the website. I'm trying this:

if ($insert) {
  $select_id = mysql_query("SELECT `id` from `users` WHERE `email` = '$form_input'");
  $id_arr = mysql_fetch_array($select_id);
  $id_var = $id_arr['id'];
  session_start();
  $_SESSION["Register"] = $id_var[0];
}

But it doesn't work so I'm trying a var_export to see what's in $id_var and I get a value of '3' which doesn't match the user_id that supposed to be stored in the variable.

Answer 1

You need to iterate over the result set to get the value of id

$id="";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($select_id))   
{    
  $id= $row ['id'];
}
if($id!=""){
   session_start();
   $_SESSION["Register"] = $id;
}

Note: mysql_query was deprecated in PHP 5.5.0, and it was removed in PHP 7.0.0. Instead, the MySQLi or PDO_MySQL extension should be used.Alternatives to this function include: mysqli_query() or PDO::query()

Moreover, passing the values directly into the query is not safe. Please, read about SQL injection