can't pass session id through pages help!!

[Bhoomika]

i have a searchengine.php where i m creating a session id when press search button it passes to searchprocess.php where i store sessid and query result in a table and displays result with pagination

but when go to searchengine page again a new sessionid is created.

I want to maintain only one session through out the prosess

thanking in advance

Bhoomika

[paulnaj]

Show us the relevant code (only the stuff relating to the session)

[Bhoomika]

Searchrengine.php

session_start();
session_register('visit_count');
?>

<?php
if(!isset($visit_count))
{
$visit_count=1;
}
else
{
$visit_count++;
print(" $visit_count times <br>");
}
$self_url=$php_self;
$session_id=sid;
//echo"$session_id";

<FORM METHOD =POST action="searchresult.php" name=form_a>
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN VALUE="bhoomi" NAME=user_name>
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN VALUE="<?php echo $session_id ;?>" NAME=sessid>

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searchprocess.php

$connection=mysql_connect($hostname,$user,$pass) or die("Unable to connect");
if($user_name=='bhoomi')
{

echo"before : $sessid";

-

-

query code........

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inserting into result table (sessid and bid)

$query1="insert into result set bbid='$qbid',sessid='$sessid' ";
$result1=mysql_db_query($database,$query1,$connection) or die("Error in query1:$query1". mysql_error());

pagination code

if($Docu_type ==0)
{

$limit =25;

//echo"search :$search<br>";

$query ="select bbid from result where result.sessid = '$sessid'";
$result_count=mysql_db_query($database,$query,$connection) or die("Error in query1:$query". mysql_error());

$totalrows=mysql_num_rows($result_count);

if($totalrows<=0)
.............

passing sessid with pages

if($page != 1)
{

$pageprev = $page - 1;

echo("<a href='$PHP_SELF?page=$pageprev&Docu_type=$Docu_type&sessid=$sessid'><img border='0' src='back.gif'></a>&nbsp;");

}

// display page nos if not 1
for($i = 1; $i <= $numofpages; $i++)
{

if($numofpages>1){
if($i == $page)

{?>&nbsp;<font size="4"><?echo"[$i]";?></font>&nbsp;<?}
else
echo"&nbsp;<a href='$PHP_SELF?page=$i&Docu_type=$Docu_type&sessid=$sessid'><font size=2>$i</font></a>&nbsp;";
}
}

// display next page link if there is more than one
if(($totalrows - ($limit * $page)) > 0)
{

$pagenext = $page + 1;

echo("<a href='$PHP_SELF?page=$pagenext&Docu_type=$Docu_type&$sessid'><img border='0' src='next.gif'></a>");

}

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i m passing sessid with pages but clicked on other pages or page sessid becomes null.

what should i do ?

thanks for reply

bhoomika

[paulnaj]

Hi, I'm afraid I haven't used sessions in the way you seem to want to ... passing the session id in URLs. However, there is a section in the manual that might help ...

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You can use the constant SID which is always defined. If the client did not send an appropriate session cookie, it has the form session_name=session_id. Otherwise, it expands to an empty string. Thus, you can embed it unconditionally into URLs.

The following example demonstrates how to register a variable, and how to link correctly to another page using SID. Example 5. Counting the number of hits of a single user

<?php
if (!session_is_registered('count')) {
    session_register('count');
    $count = 1;
}
else {
    $count++;
}
?>

Hello visitor, you have seen this page <?php echo $count; ?> times.<p>

To continue, <A HREF="nextpage.php?<?php echo strip_tags (SID)?>">click here</A>

The strip_tags() is used when printing the SID in order to prevent XSS related attacks

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Hope that helps!

[Bhoomika]

thanks

actually i dont want to pass sessid in url but i dont know the other way to pass sessid .

I m inserting search query result in a result table.(stores sessing, bid)

$limit=25;
for pagination
query=select bid from result where sessid is =$sessid limit $limitvalue $limit;

i got desired result on first page

but on second page sessid becomes null and query returns no records because $sessid is null.

what should i do to pass sessid ?

thanking in advance.

bhoomika

[srikanth1184]

did you mean second page is searchprocess.php ??

if so you have to add session_start(); in searchprocess.php.

session_start() tells PHP engine that this page uses session. So session data will be available. I don't think you need to pass session id unless you open a master thread window.

Hope this will help you.