# What about this

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-about-this/47915>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 8, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-about-this/47915 "2004-04-08T07:16:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/22d042/32.png) [@Lost](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Lost)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-about-this/47915/1 "2004-04-08T07:16:18Z")

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a user signs up for my forum. sets a cookie called i believe phpmysql\_data  
not sure. Watever what I am trying to do is on my homepage I want it to say,  
“Welcome, Lost” where Lost is the user’s id. Do I draw it from this cookie? or do I have to use sessions? and how would I draw it out of a session?

Get me?:block: