Reading a url while keeping the session alive?

mahmood

For a long time I have been trying to find a way to read contents of a url while keeping session alive.

To explain what I need I bring an example.

We know there are two version of this site. one when you haven't logged in and one when you have. If I use fopen and fread I get the version as I haven't logged in.

I asked somewhere else and they suggested curl function manual but I think it was too complecated for me.

Could anybody give me a sample code or something to read a url while your session is alive.

Thanks

SargeZT

Personally, I'd reccomend instead of just fopening the file, I'd pass along an encoded version of the session in $_GET form.

For example:

$link = "http://www.blahdeblah.com/index.php?session=".session_encode();

And on the fopened page, use session_decode to check the credentials.
But, there is no real way to keep the session alive, as the client is not accessing the site. Secondly, sessions are unique to one domain, and if you're fopen'ing, then I assume this is on another domain altogether.

mahmood

I put this code:

  

$link = "http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?session=".session_encode();

and receive this warning:

  

Warning: session_encode() [function.session-encode]: Cannot encode non-existent session. in E:\web\update.php on line 6

I don't know what I was supposed to get.

SargeZT

That means that there are no sessions set, I.E. You are not logged on.
Do a print_r of your $_SESSION variable and post what it gives to you.

mahmood

SargeZT wrote:
That means that there are no sessions set, I.E. You are not logged on.
Do a print_r of your $_SESSION variable and post what it gives to you.

this is what I get:

  Array()

SargeZT

That means there isn't a session set in the first place. I'd see what you can do about that first off.