Using Sess URL instead of cookies

vectorian798

The people for whom I am making a site want the site to work with URL sessions instead of cookies. To do this, I need to edit the php.ini file and have the following lines I believe:

session.use_cookies = 0
session.use_only_cookies = 0

However, it is staying in cookies mode for some reason. Any thoughts?

olaf

are you using session in or still cookies? what is your code? (the code which generates cookies by the client)

vectorian798

I use the session_start() function

olaf

this tells the server only that you are like to use a session. But with which code do you call or define a session?

vectorian798

K I just set $_SESSION['variablename'] = value

Is that what you're asking?

olaf

yes, and what happens after the sessions is set? Do you get a long nasty querystring?

vectorian798

I get nothing. When I have those two settings in php.ini set to 1, it uses cookies and works just fine. But when I have them set to 0 (which I think should make it use URL sessions), the login page for example, just doesn't work - it logs them in but when you click onto the next page you just go back to the homepage as if you weren't logged in

olaf

try this:

use the normal setting in the php.ini for sessions and don't accept cookies in your client. Check if you get phpsessid string...

vectorian798

Nm...all I had to do was change enable_trans_id or whatever it is in the php.ini file to 1...