Storing the session ID in a cookie

Lazesharp

How would i go about storing the session ID on the client machine in a cookie and get it to automatically send it to the server when they visit the site and would this also allow me to not have to attatch the session id to all the links in the page?

Any help would be appreciated.

Lazesharp

mikesgt2

It is done automatically.

If the client did not accept the cookie then the SID constant will hold the bit to add to the query string, else it will be empty.

Lazesharp

Do you know which session function triggers this automatic storing of the SID? No matter how hard i try, the SID is always held in SID and not in a cookie, and i have accept all cookies on.

mikesgt2

It uses cookies on mine.

Check in your php.ini for this option: [FONT=courier new]session.use_cookies[/FONT].

Tell me what the value is. Also check out the php manual under session functions.

Lazesharp

Its set to 1.

After much thinking i have managed to do it manually using setcookie("PHPSESSID", session_id()), this seems to have done the job and my test script works like a charm.

Not sure why it doesnt do it automatically, but thanks for the help.

At least this way i can change the cookies' lifetime if i want to.

Thanks

Lazesharp