Create a current session variable not working - php

Question

I have a table and it has more columns:
id | username | picture
Picture is varchar type and it keeps the path of user picture
username is varchar and is unique
<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_POST["logIn"])) {
$connection = new mysqli(...);
$email = $connection->real_escape_string($_POST["email"]);
$password = sha1($connection->real_escape_string($_POST["password"]));
$data = $connection->query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE email='$email' AND password='$password'");
if ($data->num_rows > 0) {
$_SESSION["email"] = $email;
$_SESSION["loggedIn"] = 1;
$picture = $connection->query("SELECT picture FROM users WHERE email='$email' AND password='$password'");
$_SESSION["picture"]=$picture;
header("Location:../index.php");
exit();
}
So what I want to do is, create a $_SESSION["picture"] variable which will keep the value of the username's picture , i mean the picture of the user that is trying to login now

Answer 1

You have to call a fetch function to get the data from the table.
$data = $connection->query("SELECT picture FROM users WHERE email='$email' AND password='$password'");
if ($data->num_rows > 0) {
$row = $data->fetch_assoc();
$_SESSION["email"] = $email;
$_SESSION["loggedIn"] = 1;
$_SESSION["picture"]=$row['picture'];
header("Location:../index.php");
exit();
}