Session start and variables

trigger

what is wrong with this code? where should it go? I'm trying to set a session variable ("cust_id") to be equal to the session_id

if(!isset(session_register)){
session_start();
$cust_id = "session_id()";
session_register("cust_id");
}

what am I doing wrong? This is driving me nuts! I just want to set a random session variable as an id, so I can track users!

trigger

I've tried putting this thing into top of the PHP code, and still no use. I've tried changing the "if" statement to say:
if(!isset(cust_id)){

to start the session. What am I doing wrong?

trigger

if(!session_is_registered){
session_start();
$cust_id = "session_id()";
session_register("cust_id");
}

this shows up in the url of my page, making the detail page useless. I pass the key variable in the url in the go to detail page behavior.

This is a detail page I am trying to code, so if there is no session started, it starts and registers the session id as the cust_id variable.

I will use the cust_id variable to filter records on the shopping cart page, based on the cust_id in the quote table, a record which gets created with the insert record behavior.

What am I doing wrong?!?!?! I'm going absolutely nuts on this problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edwardsbc

I'm not certain exactly how to solve your problem, but I always execute a session_start() right away, this allows you access to the session object which I don't think exists until you execute this function. Then I check for the existance of the variable I'm interested in:

session_start();
if(!isset($_SESSION['cust_id'])) {
  $_SESSION['cust_id']=$somevalue
}
# now use $_SEESION['cust_id'] in some way...

The session id is unique to the current session only and probably should not be used as a long term customer id.