Thanks for your thoughts. To answer your first question, I'm using extract() because this is a page where admins and super users can edit the permissions of others for the site. Therefore, I have to query the database to create a listing of all users, and then have the admin/super user select one to modify (I was planning to serve the 'rights' informatin from the selected user via POST to another page where changes could be made). sometimes the user and rights that I get "assigned" when I hit refresh are another user with super rights and sometimes one with less than super rights and then I get sent to the 'die' landing page. I'm a real newbie at PHP/MySQL, so if there is a better/easier/more efficient way of creating the select list, I'm just not aware of how to do it. I just tried removing the extract statement and the select list is now empty... I'm using a free PHP/MySQL host online so I don't have access to make register_global changes, but I did find in the documentation that they have it set to "on". On a similar note, the variable $_SESSION['rights'] does certainly exist, it exists for the admin/super user logged in and accessing the administration page. What's interesting about this whole thing is that I have changed the query to include non session variables I have set and everything works fine. For instance (to clarify) since I set $_SESSION['user'] and $_SESSION['rights'] when the user logs in, if my query to create the selection list is based on any other table columns (for instance, fname and lname and NOT user or rights) then the "weird" behavior does not show up. Having gone thru that...somehow, someway, the query of all user info seems to change the session variables. I appreciate your brain power thinking thru this! Any new thoughts? drb On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Evert Lammerts <evert.lammerts@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Why use extract()? Try commenting it out... apart from it being > > If you use 'register globals' there's a good chance that a variable > $rights exists because it's a key in your $_SESSION array (don't shoot > me if I'm wrong, I've never worked with 'register globals'). By using > extract() without the $type parameter (so with EXTR_OVERWRITE set), > the $type variable is overwritten. > > So do try commenting it out. >
