Phpsessid

[BrentNorin]

Ok well I'm working with sessions, I got a shaky grasp on what is going on. Everything is working fine, but I got this weird phenomenon. It only occurs like this: if the browser is closed, and then open it up for the first time (no other pages open), and then go to my site all links have PHPSESSID appended to them. Now I know what this is, but if I refresh the page it disappears off of all links. If I click on a link it disappears off all links. Happens on any browser. I know this is nothing to be alarmed with, but I want to know WHY, cause it does make links look nasty when first loaded.

Also, not pertaining to the problem, when I was reading a manual as I first journeyed into the world of sessions, this code was included:

$_GET['sid'] = SID;

Now nowhere was that used anywhere, so is it important? :bemused:

[mtmosier]

This is php trying to decide whether your browser has cookies enabled or not. If you have session.use_trans_sid enabled and cookies disabled, then all links will always have the session id appended to them. When you first visit the site php can't tell whether your browser allows cookies or not, so it both sets a cookie and appends the session id to the querystring. When you next access a page and it sees that the session id was indeed saved in a cookie it will no longer use session ids in the querystring.

The SID constant is talked about on this page. Since you have trans sid turned on you don't need it. And of course just assigning it to $GET['sid'] and not using it after that accomplishes nothing. (Perhaps at some point they loop through $GET to create links? Otherwise no idea the point in it.)

[BrentNorin]

Ok as long as its not abnormal or anything. Thanks!