PHP4 Sess ID propagation?

Anon

How do you propagate the session ID number WITHIN PHP statements? I see examples of how to do it outside of PHP, but not within.

when it's outside PHP you should use:
<A HREF="?<?=SID?>&target=MP">Main Page</a>

and it works fine.

but how about when I need to use?:
header("location: http://mysite.com/page.php?=SID");

this doesn't work.

Nor this:
header("location: http://mysite.com/page.php?<?=SID?>");
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Robert

Anon

if you compile php4 with --enable-trans-sid then you don't need to use <?=SID?>

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--enable-trans-sid has ways of F'ing up urls now and then.

Just print the session_id():

header("Location: bla.php?this=that&PHPSESSID=".session_id());

BTW, this is also "outside" PHP,
or at least it differs 0,01 from echoing an href.

Anon

printing the session_id is good if you don't have control of the webserver and can't recompile php.

--enable-trans-sid doesn't use urls
the session id is kept in a cookie. It works well with all browsers that support cookies (ie,netscape, lynx, etc.)
it's totally transparent to the user and programmer.

(cookie😛HPSESSID=0428f4241b56a51c4f77523e4ea0cc16)

vincent wrote:

--enable-trans-sid has ways of F'ing up urls now and then.

Just print the session_id():

header("Location: bla.php?this=that&PHPSESSID=".session_id());

BTW, this is also "outside" PHP,
or at least it differs 0,01 from echoing an href.

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--enable-trans-id does put the sessionID in the URL.
You might want to read the manual:

-- quote --
PHP is capable of doing this transparently when compiled with --enable-trans-sid. If you enable this option, relative URIs will be changed to contain the session id automatically
-- end quote --

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Picky picky... 🙂