[Resolved] Carrying sessions across pages.........

[k994519]

Hi guys,

I have got page which set's up a session as soon a user log's in...

I can continue to carry the session across if the user clicks on a link....but as they have to complete a form and click on A submit button the previous session get destoryed and a new one is created. ( I have not called the session destory function..)

there is a function I have created to check if the user is login in (this is set to false) because I believe the session Id is not the same, so they have to login again...

is there a way where I can send the same session ID across the whole site ?

thanks for your help........

[rebelo]

I might misunderstand what you're trying to acheive but you can get the user's current session id with the session_id() function.

So, if you want a user to maintain their session all the time you can set a cookie and have it store their session id. Then, when the user returns to the site and logs in, have the login process look for that cookie and then use the session_id() function again, passing the session id to it as the only argument (before session_start() gets called). This will force session_start() to use the session id that was saved in the cookie.

[k994519]

any Idea where I can get a tutorial for cookies with sessions

thanks...

[rebelo]

Well, coincidentally phpbuilder.net is a good site for php articles etc. Codewalkers.com is also pretty good for tutorials. Sessions and cookies are really simple stuff, though. You can probably get the hang of it if you just read the manual pages for session_id(), session_start() and setcookie().

Here's the basic idea:

<?php
// setting the cookie with the current session id
$sessid = session_id();
setcookie("sessid", $sessid, time()+2592000);

// checking for cookie and resuming session
if (isset($_COOKIE['sessid'])) {
    session_id($_COOKIE['sessid']);
}
session_start();
?>

[k994519]

Thanks

[rebelo]

No problem. Please mark thread as resolved if you don't need anything else. 🙂