<? echo $_Session['value'] ?> not working in Chrome

Question

I have the following:

 <input type="hidden" name="phone_home" value="<? echo $_SESSION['full_home_phone'] ?>">

this works for firefox but not for google chrome.. can anyone help?

thx ahead of time

Answer 1

Let me guess...

<input type="hidden" name="phone_home" value="<? 
  echo htmlspecialchars($_SESSION['full_home_phone']) 
?>">

Answer 2

The problem could be that you are using <? ... ?>. Try <?php ... ?>.

Or you are not starting session before you are using $_SESSION.

Answer 3

Just to make sure the problem is not something very basic: you do understand that the session is tied to the browser, and changing to Chrome will mean you don't have the session data you stored in Firefox, right?

Answer 4

Depending on the doctype you use, this might be invalid HTML (no / at the end), and Chrome and Firefox handle tag soups differently. What is the actual HTML output? What do you see in Firebug / Chrome inspector?

Answer 5

This is the code you want:

<?=$_SESSION['full_home_phone'];?>

Also make sure that there are no quotes or apostrophes in your phone number, and not forgetting the semi-colon at the end :)

Answer 6

The following code is working for me in Chrome. I think the only problem there is (<?php) tag. Try this.

<?php
     if (!isset($_SESSION)) session_start();
     $_SESSION['var_name']='some value';
?>
<form action="post">
<input type="hidden" name="phone_home" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['var_name'] ?>">     
</form>

Answer 7

Have you called session_start() to initialize the user session?