Passing Strings Between Pages

[OtagoHarbour]

I use the following form to allow the user to log in.<form action="login.php" method="post"> User name: <input type="text" name="username" /> Password: <input type="password" name="pwd" /><br /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /><br /></form>login.php includes the following code. $GivenUserName=$_POST["username"]; echo "User name:" . $GivenUserName; $result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM SubScribers WHERE username="'.$GivenUserName.'"'); $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); mysql_close($con); if (sha1($_POST["pwd"])==$row['PassWord']) { header("Location: http://localhost/Whatever.html"); }Is there a way to pass $GivenUserName or $_POST["username"] to http://localhost/Whatever.html so thathttp://localhost/Whatever.html displays something likeWelcome [whatever the user name is]when it is opened.Also http://localhost/Whatever.html has the following line<a href="http://localhost/UploadFile.php">Upload Files</a>Is there a way to subsequently pass $GivenUserName or $_POST["username"] on to http://localhost/UploadFile.phpso that a directory with the name $GivenUserName or $_POST["username"] may be created to store the uploaded files.I guess one way is to store the user name in a file but I thought there may be a better way to do it.Many thanks in advance,Peter.

[jeffman]

Temporarily save data in a session. These examples illustrate the concept better than the introduction examples do.

[OtagoHarbour]

Temporarily save data in a session. These examples illustrate the concept better than the introduction examples do.

That works great! Thanks very much,Peter.