index.php
<?php
session_start();
$name = $_SESSION['words']['name'] ?? '';
$noun1 = $_SESSION['words']['noun1'] ?? '';
$verb = $_SESSION['words']['verb'] ?? '';
$adjective = $_SESSION['words']['adjective'] ?? '';
$noun2 = $_SESSION['words']['noun2'] ?? '';
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8"
<title>MadLibs</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Choose your words</h1>
<form action = "story.php" method="post">
<div>
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?php echo $name;?>">
</div>
<div>
<label for="noun1">Noun:</label>
<input type="text" name="noun1" id="noun1" value="<?php echo $noun1;?>">
</div>
<div>
<label for="verb">Verb:</label>
<input type="text" name="verb" id="verb" value="<?php echo $verb;?>">
</div>
<div>
<label for="adjective">Adjective:</label>
<input type="text" name="adjective" id="adjective" value="<?php echo $adjective;?>">
</div>
<div>
<label for="noun2">Noun:</label>
<input type="text" name="noun2" id="noun2" value="<?php echo $noun2;?>">
</div>
<div>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php
// php --ri session
?>
story.php
<?php
session_start();
$name = $_POST['name'] ?? '';
$noun1 = $_POST['noun1'] ?? '';
$verb = $_POST['verb'] ?? '';
$adjective = $_POST['adjective'] ?? '';
$noun2 = $_POST['noun2'] ?? '';
$_SESSION['words'] = array(
'name' => $name,
'noun1' => $noun1,
'verb' => $verb,
'adjective' => $adjective,
'noun2' => $noun2
)
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8"
<title>MadLibs</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Here's Your Story</h1>
<p>Yesterday, <?php echo $name;?> decided to buy a <?php echo $adjective;?>
<?php echo $noun1;?>. After using it to <?php echo $verb;?> with the <?php echo $noun2;?>
they decided to give the <?php echo $noun1;?> to their friend.
</p>
<p><a href="index.php">Edit the story</a></p>
</body>
</html>
When you type php –ri session in the terminal you get this screen
in index.php we added the line:
<?php session_start() ?>
a line above the session.save.handler => files => files points the directory on your file system where the session are stored. in my case “sessions.save_path” has no value because I am using mamp pro. So my default folder is /tmp.
