[FX.php List] Cookie issue

[Leo R. Lundgren]

23 feb 2008 kl. 00.28 skrev Bob Patin:

> So here's the question then: if I were to pass the session variable  
> in all of my links and URLs (which I seriously doubt I'm going to  
> go in and do), and they had cookies disabled, the session variable  
> would tell my web server which set of session data to retrieve, and  
> all would be well?
>
> The downside of this is the logistical nightmare of adding the  
> variable to every link on the site, and this particular web app has  
> literally dozens of them per page because it shows cars, and each  
> car has a link on it to farther into the web app.
>
> But it's a possibility... :)
>
> BP
>
> On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Steve Winter wrote:
>
>> server, and all you're passing in the URL is the session ID...
>>
>> If you've got a session started, and the user has cookies, when  
>> you do a
>> print_r($_REQUEST); you'll see the session ID in there... all PHP  
>> is doing,
>> on the server side is looking for that session ID in the $_REQUEST  
>> data...
>> it doesn't care if it comes from a cookie, a URL or a form post...
>>
>> On the page where you first create the session with session_start  
>> SID then
>> contains the value of the session ID, and can from that point on  
>> be used to
>> append the session ID to any get or post, at which point all the  
>> session
>> data, which is on the server, is available...
>
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Bob,

Read http://se2.php.net/session under the heading "Passing the  
Session ID". It explains what you need to know. Unless you have a  
very custom way of outputting your pages I think PHP can handle it  
for you.

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