Hey, havent touched PHP in a good 6 months and even then i spent a couple of weeks with it. I created a simple login / out with profile page and decided to play around with it today.

 

I want to show the username of the logged in user on the profile page but when using:

 

echo($_SESSION['username']);

 

it shows my database username...

 

Any help?

Hey, havent touched PHP in a good 6 months and even then i spent a couple of weeks with it. I created a simple login / out with profile page and decided to play around with it today.

 

I want to show the username of the logged in user on the profile page but when using:

 

echo($_SESSION['username']);

 

it shows my database username...

 

Any help?

 

mmm more then likely your storing your database username in the session $_SESSION['username'] when creating the session. and im not sure i know what you mean by logged in username and database username should they not be the same?

when you are logging the user in , store the username in it like :

$_SESSION['user_name']=$username;

 

when you say

it shows my database username...

I'm assuming you have an admin area too,but it shows your username instead of users .

if this is the case ,try to save the users username in different session,this will solve your problem.