Appending php sessions to urls

AliceH

I'm creating an admin panel for a php application, and I'm appending the session to each link in the control panel.

I just wanted to ask you guys if this is the right way to do it:

somelink.php?PHPSESSID=<?php echo strip_tags(session_id()) ?>

Now when the user is directed to somelink.php will the session automatically be found? Or do I have to add some line in the somelink.php file such as:

session = $PHPSESSID;

Thanks for any help 🙂

Weedpacket

[man]session[/man]
SID (string)
Constant containing the session name and session ID in the form of "name=ID". [/quote]
See also Example 5.

Now when the user is directed to somelink.php will the session automatically be found? Or do I have to add some line in the somelink.php file such as:
[man]session_start[/man]

AliceH

I've already read both those pages, several times.

In example 5 it states:

?<?php echo strip_tags (SID)?>">

That doesn't actually work
I guess they mean this: ?PHPSESSID=<?php echo strip_tags(session_id()) ?>

and I guess the session is automatically found from PHPSESSID.

LordShryku

He's saying that it should be found if you call session_start(). Any page you page plan to use sessions on should call session_start() at the beginning

Weedpacket

It should probably be noted (on somewhere other than the [man]session_id[/man] page) that SID is only defined if cookies are not being used on the client to store the session ID. If cookies are being used, then SID isn't needed anyway.

AliceH

Originally posted by Weedpacket
It should probably be noted (on somewhere other than the [man]session_id[/man] page) that SID is only defined if cookies are not being used on the client to store the session ID. If cookies are being used, then SID isn't needed anyway.

ooooooooooohh....now i get it 😃

thanks guys 🙂