[FX.php List] Cookie issue

[Steve Winter]

Taking into consideration everything that's been said since this post, the
bottom line is YES...!!!

You do have to surmount the logistical issue, but then you should be able to
do that with a search and replace on the page(s) concerned, since the beauty
of SID is that if a cookie exists, then SID resolves to nothing at all,
whereas if the cookie doesn't exist then it resolves to the default session
ID name = session ID, so if you search and replace every instance of
pagereference.php with pagereference.php<?php echo '?'.SID; ?> then in the
instances when a cookie exists SID will resolve to nothing at all so the
link will become pagereference.php? in the situation when the cookie does
not exist it will become pagereference.php?PHPSESION=sesionID at which point
the sessions will function correctly...

Please excuse any typing errors in this message as it's rather late on a
Friday evening where I am and several wines have been consumed ;-)

Cheers
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Bob Patin
Sent: 22 February 2008 23:29
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Cookie issue

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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