PHPSESSID problem

[catchupvijay]

Hello,

I am newbie to PHP scripting.
There seems to be some problem with getting the session ID.I started the session by issuing
session_start();
and wish to append my URL links with this ID
like <a href="home.php?<?print SID ?>">Home</a>
As SID is global variable to PHP scripts,but
It does not print the PHPSESSID at the line.
In the PHP.ini file there is an option to compile PHP with --enable-trans-sid support it automatically appends PHPSESSID to all the links in apoplication.
I am running PHP 4.2 on windows with Apache.

Can anyone help me in here

[Anon]

The SID constant will only be available if the SID has not been stored by a cookie. What I do is use a function like this:

function sid($char)
{
if(strlen(SID))
{
return $char.SID;
}
return true
}

And then for links:

echo "<a href=\"page.php?id=9".sid("&")."\">link</a>";

BUT... Your program should still work at the moment so you could just keep it like that.