Passing a session id

vmusic

OK,
So I give..... I think I have or understand conceptually the statelessness of HTTP.

So I decided to use php session HOWEVER I thought or believed that somehow php sessions could operate where php created a file on the web server.

So I'm saying -
I do not want to store cookies
I do not want to pass a session id in a URL
I do not want to use java script

I am willing to use php sessions, but I want to have php sessions where php stores a file on the web server.

Is there such a thing? - php sessions where php stores the data on the server and when on script on the server calls another the same server it knows what session

?????????????

Thanks!!!

LordShryku

That's the nature of sessions. IT does that by default. Check you ini file for session.save_path. Set that, and it will store your session files there.

vmusic

Hi,
OK.... as frustrated as I am. I give in. I'll use session cookies. HOWEVER.....
Is there a way I can test at the very beginning to see if the cookie is actually set?

Does session_start(); return false if the cookie fails? The php manual says it ALWAYS returns true.....

So how do you know if the user doesn't have cookies turned off or didn't accept the session cookie?

Vmusic

Weedpacket

On the [man]session_id[/man] page:

The constant SID can also be used to retrieve the current name and session id as a string suitable for adding to URLs. Note that SID is only defined if the client didn't send the right cookie. See also Session handling.

You won't know (for obvious reasons) if cookies are on or off on the client until the second page - whereupon SID will or won't be defined, depending.