Further to the last e-mail the plot thickens.......
If cookies is turned on, the line
echo "SID: $PHPSESSID";
displays the session id. I thought the whole idea of using $PHPSESSID was so that
sessions
would work with cookies turned off! Am I missing something here?
I disabled cookies via the preferences advanced tab in Netscape.
David
David Allen wrote:
> Thanks for your email. I did the changes you suggested, and the page is now
> going
> to" input.php?=" ie no record of the SID.
>
> I added the following lines to the code.
>
> echo "SID: $SID";
> and
> echo "SID: $PHPSESSID";
>
> and $SID was not displayed i.e just SID: was displayed. I guess this is the
> problem.
> For some reason, SID is not assigned a value. However, PHP is creating a file
> in /tmp
> on the server called sess_09591b3e465294959ecde0ee41f6c188 and as I said in
> the last e-mail, sessions with cookies is working fine.
>
> Thanks again for any ideas. I am using php 4.0.5 running on Sun Solaris
>
> David
>
> "scott [gts]" wrote:
>
> > you're passing the PHPSESSID incorrectly, it seems
> >
> > you must do something like this:
> > <A HREF="nextpage.php?<?=SID?>">
> > or
> > header("Location: nextpage.php?$SID");
> >
> > what you're doing now will go to page "input.php?=SID"
> > instead of "input.php?938sa9fa98f7daf987a9s" (or similar)
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:45 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [PHP] session problem using headers
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am having problems with sessions. With cookies turned on it works
> > > fine. Turn off cookies it fails.
> > >
> > > I have tried both
> > >
> > > header("Location: input.php?=SID");
> > > header("Location: input.php?PHPSESSID=".PHPSESSID);
> > >
> > > to pass the session id to the programme input.php but neither works.
> > >
> > > The first lines of input.php are
> > >
> > > <?
> > > session_register("userid");
> > > ?>
> > >
> > > userid is the variable I wish to pass. However, I have no other code
> > > related to sessions in this script. Do I need in some way "tell" the
> > > script to use this session id?
> > >
> > > As a have said before, it works fine if cookies are turned on.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
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