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PHP

Mayur Pande
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Mayur Pande
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Posted by Mayur Pande
Mayur Pande
Courses Plus Student 11,711 Points

Undefined index error

I am using slim-3 to build an authentication system. However at the moment I am struggling to get the errors to display on the sign-up page;

It keeps giving me the error 

Undefined index: errors in /var/www/html/tobylindsell.com/app/Middleware/ValidationErrorsMiddleware.php on line 23, referer: http://tobylindsell.com/admin

However when I run a var_dump($_SESSION['errors'] on my Validator file it shows all the errors. Only when passed to my ValidationErrorsMiddleware.php file it doesn't show up.

Originally I was getting the error;

Undefined: _SESSION variable

But then I put a session_start at the top of my ValidationErrorsMiddleware.php this got rid of this error but not the 

Undefined index: errors

Here is my ValidationErrorsMiddlesware.php

<?php

namespace App\Middleware;

use App\Validation\Validator;
session_start();
//inherits base middleware
class ValidationErrorsMiddleware extends Middleware{

    public function __invoke($request,$response,$next){


        $this->container->view->getEnvironment()->addGlobal('errors',$_SESSION['errors']);  
        //we unset the session as we no longer need it
        unset($_SESSION['errors']);

        //after state has changed
        $response = $next($request,$response);

        return $response;
    }


}

Here is my Validator.php

<?php

namespace App\Validation;

use Respect\Validation\Validator as Respect;

//used for error checking see try catch block below
use Respect\Validation\Exceptions\NestedValidationException;

if(!isset($_SESSION)){
    session_start();
}

class Validator{

    protected $errors;

    //create validate method
    public function validate($request, array $rules){


        foreach($rules as $field => $rule){

            try{

                //helps pulling back error messages
                $rule->setName(ucfirst($field))->assert($request->getParam($field));

            }catch(NestedValidationException $e){

                //append to error list see property. we pass in field var here to keep track
                //getMessages because there could be more than one assertion fail
                $this->errors[$field] = $e->getMessages();



            }

        }

        $_SESSION['errors'] = $this->errors;

        return $this;
    }


    public function failed(){
        //return/check if the errors are not empty
        return !empty($this->errors);

    }

}