PHP Session and XHTML validation

drawmack

I am writting a pretty good sized web app that uses sessions to remember who a vistor is.

My links in the application are getting either ?PHPSESSID=<session ID> or &PHPSESSID=<session ID> appended to the end of them depending on if they already have query string parameters attached or not.

The problem is that in xhtml you can't use & as a character you must use &

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Jeb_

I found this in the manual:

From: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php user notes
This is invalid in XHTML 1.0 Strict or 1.1 because it tries to use PHPSESSID as an HTML entity, such as   (and of course fails and generates a few errors). To fix, set
arg_seperator.output = "&"
in php.ini, put
php_flag arg_seperator.output "&"
in your .htaccess, or use
ini_set("arg_seperator.output", "&");
somewhere in your code (before session_start()😉.

Might be of some use to you.

drawmack

thank you I'll give that a shot.

punix

if it won't work with

ini_set("arg_seperator.output", "& amp ;");
ini_set("arg_seperator.input", "& amp ;");

(note: fit "& amp ;" together.)

try

ini_set("session.use_trans_sid", "0");

instead. now it can be, that you have to make your sid -tags on your own.