passing $sid variable to a .js file

[Anon]

I have a script written to append the $sid value to the end of all the links (for session tracking) on a large site I am working on. The script works fine if written at the bottom of each html page. I would like to put this code into a .js javascript file. I can not get the $sid variable to pass to the .js file at all. I have tried writing a php file to echo back the javascript to the html file to no avail. Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.

[Anon]

I have no idea how you want to do this, nor why to be honest, but this will work.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='javascript">
<!--
var sid = <?php echo $sid; ?>;
//-->
</SCRIPT>

As long as PHP has assigned a value to $sid, and you save the javascript as a file with .php, or .inc, whatever extension you like, then use include, or require to call it, it will work. For that matter, as long as the variable is set before the script gets parsed to the page, it will work.

I use this exact method for a stats tracking script and it works perfectly. If it is not working for you, then the problem lies elsewhere. If you are calling the file from within a function, you have to set $sid as a global or it will not pass the variable to the file when you include it.

[Anon]

thanks, the reason I want to use this is my sysadmin does not want to enable -trans-sid. I have a lot of pages to add the $sid to and this is the only way I can find to add the $sid dynamically after the html has been written. Do you have any other ideas?