Confused by session ids...

ElectricRain

Ok so I have a template page (index.php) and the rest of the site is made up of includes. Now if I do this on the template page:

session_start();
$session = session_id();

echo ($session);

it behaves as expected- the session remains the same value.

IF however I leave the above as is, and echo $session onto one of my includes, the value of $session according to the include changes everytime I refresh the page. WHY??

Weedpacket

You're going to have to give us a bit more than this.

ElectricRain

Nevermind. Ive fixed it.. On the particular include I was testing this on, there was also a hit counter.. n thats what was changing the value of $session somehow. As a matter of interest though, why would this happen? Heres the code on that include

<?php 
echo ($session);

//update the counter
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
mysql_query("INSERT into hits values('NULL', '$PHP_SELF', '$ip', '$HTTP_REFERER')") or die(mysql_error());

//display the counter
$display = mysql_query("SELECT * from hits WHERE page = '$PHP_SELF'");
$row = mysql_num_rows($display);
echo ("<br><br>".$row."<br>Hits since Jan 2006");

mysql_close($connection); 
?>

As far as I can see the hit counter should have no effect on the value of $session? But when I erased the counter the problem was fixed. =\