session but cookies disabled

[cretaceous]

is there a way to get sessions to work if cookies are disabled in the browser?

the site is on a server with use_trans_id off

I've tried this:
ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', 1);

but if cookies are disabled the session still doesn't register

I really dont mind if the session id gets passed in the url - there's nothing anyone can do with it, no money will be lost or information compromised - it's just maintaining state

thanks

(I've done countless searches and I do know why people like to stop session ids being passed in urls)

[bradgrafelman]

Yeah - pass the SID in the URL.

The manual explains how to do this.

[cretaceous]

ok thanks brad

• now this is kinda interesting - I wrote a reply while I had cookies disabled - phpBuilder put up a confirm username/pw box and the SID was transparently appended in the url...

so, I wrote, why cant my site do that?
(because it still cant even though I now have:
php_value session.use_trans_sid 1
in the .htaccess file)

I dont know how to append the SID without doing it explicitly to all my links..

Anyway I then figured out that I could test for the session at a convenient point and tell the user to enable cookies - so as to allow the session to register - (that's better than seeing an empty cart )

and I went on to say that maybe sessions arent the answer to all login/cart problems

...and that seems to be demonstrated by my post from yesterday not appearing here when I had cookies disabled - I thought I was logged in but I wasnt

um, I dont know what all this proves apart from test test test.. and php's transparent SID support seems unpredictable