PHP - Add Variable To Curl Url

My login script stores the user's login name as $_SESSION[ 'name'] on login. For some unapparent reason, i'm getting errors stating that $user  and $priv are  undefined variables, though I've attempted to define $user as being equal to $_SESSION['name'], using $user to look up the the user's privilege level (stored as the su column ) in the SQL table, and then where the result of the sql query is $priv which is then evaluated in an if statement. I can't seem to figure out why this might not be working.

The code I'm using:

<?php
session_start();
function verify() {
	//verify that the user is logged in via the login page. Session_start has already been called. 
	if (!isset($_SESSION['loggedin'])) {
	header('Location: /index.html'); 
	exit;
	}
	//if user is logged in, we then lookup necessary privleges. $_SESSION['name'] was written with the login name upon login. Privleges   // are written in db as a single-digit integer of of 0 for users, 1 for administrators, and 2 for special users. 
        $user === $_SESSION['name'];
    //Connect to Databse
	$link = mysqli_connect("127.0.0.1", "database user", "password", "database");
	if (!$link) {
  	  echo "Error: Unable to connect to MySQL." . PHP_EOL;
    	echo "Debugging errno: " . mysqli_connect_errno() . PHP_EOL;
    	echo "Debugging error: " . mysqli_connect_error() . PHP_EOL;
    	exit;
        }
        //SQL Statement to lookup privlege information. 
       if ($result = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT su FROM accounts WHERE username = $user", MYSQLI_STORE_RESULT)) {
         //LOOP TO CYCLE THROUGH SQL RESULTS AND STORE Privlege information as vairable $priv.
            while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
           $priv === $row["su"];
            }
        }
        // close SQL connection.
        mysqli_close($link);

 // Verify privleges and take action. Only a privlege of "1" is allowed to view this page. A privlege of "2" indicates special 
//accounts used in other scripts that have certain indermediate additional functions, but are not trusted administrators. 

        if ($priv !== 1) {
        echo $_SESSION['name'];
        echo "you have privlege level of $priv";
        echo "<br>";
        echo 'Your account does not have the privleges necessary to view this page';
        exit;
        }
        
}
verify();
?>

<?php
 
 
function get($url, $params=array()) 
{ 
 
    $url = $url.'?'.http_build_query($params, '', '&');
    
    $ch = curl_init();
    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
        
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    
    curl_close($ch);
    
    return $response;
}
 
// Sample call
 
echo get('https://www.example.com/index.php', array('something'=>'value', 'somethingtwo'=>'valuetwo'));
 
 
?>

<?

$username = 'xxxxxxx';
$password = 'xxxxxxx';
$postinfo = "username=".$username."&password=".$password;

$cookie="cookie.txt"; 

$ch = curl_init();

// extra headers
$headers[] = "Accept: */*";
$headers[] = "Connection: Keep-Alive";

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,  $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://weblogin.asu.edu/cas/login');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postinfo);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie); 


$data = curl_exec($ch);

if (curl_error($ch)) {
    echo curl_error($ch);
}


echo $data;

curl_close($ch);

// //page with the content I want to grab after logging in  (test after login works)
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://webapp4.asu.edu/myasu/");
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
// $data = curl_exec($ch);
// if (curl_error($ch)) {
//     echo curl_error($ch);
// }



?>