few questions about SESSIONS

[blue928]

Hi, I am new to sessions and cookies and am having a heck of a time with them.

I am runnint NT 4.0. I would like to enable trans id but php.net states that I have to compile PHP with this option. Well, I can't compile PHP so what do windows users do to enable this function?

next question. Since I don't have trans-id enabled, I am trying to pass the sessionid in the URL by using <?=SID?>. when I run my test scripts (<a href=http://session.php?<?=SID?>click here</a>) I can never get my registered variables to echo. ie

echo ($HTTP_SESSION_VARS("variable"));

doesn't work. any thoughts? yes cookies are enable on my browser.

tangent question. what the difference between a relative and non-relative URL?

thx
blue

[Anon]

First off, I thoght you could edit the --with-trans-sid compiling option in the php.ini file, but maybe not. Also, to refer to the $HTTP_SESSION_VARS array I think you would use square brackets as in $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["something"], but I might be wrong. Maybe your server is configured such that the $something variable is not in an array; you can refer to it as $something. Lastly, instead of writing <?=SID?>, try <? echo session_id()?>, that's all.

                 -Will