By the way of xhtml validator and GET

whisher06

Hi anyOne.
I've got a odd trouble with
the xhmtl validation for my
personal site blogial.
When I try to validate I get this:

<li><a href="/index.php?cat=1&PHPSESSID=e1c8723eaf7d0eefd07706afe6b49a38">Php&nb
An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon [;]. The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands in URLs".

but in the xhtml source I've got only this:

<li><a href="/index.php?cat=1">Php (2)</a></li>

Well, I'm wondering I sent by GET
only a value (category ID) and so
what's the problem with PHPSESSID.
If I sent 2 values I could work it around
using for instance

<a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">...</a>

but I'm sending only a value 😕
Could you help me ?
TKs.

bpat1434

PHPSESSID can be turned off with:

ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', 0);

whisher06

Hi.
First of all lots of thanks
for the ready reply .
I tried to put

ini_set('session_use_trans_sid', 0);

but unfortunately it doesn't work 😕
I've got the same parse error

Warning Line 22 column 30: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "PHPSESSID".

I don't know what the heck is going on my code !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm awaiting a piece of news anxiously 😃
I don't have any troubles for this problem
but I'm very annoyed about it.
I'd like to valdate my xhtml code.
Take care.

Blulagoon

<li><a href="/index.php?cat=1">Php (2)</a></li>

I think a space between Php and   might help with validation.

Blu

whisher06

Hi.
Tks for the piece of advice
but guess you it
doesn't work.
SooooBBbb .................
Bye-Bye

bpat1434

WDG FAQ wrote:
Ampersands (&'s) in URLs

Another common error occurs when including a URL which contains an ampersand ("&"):

 <a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">...</a>

This example generates an error for "unknown entity section" because the "&" is assumed to begin an entity reference. Browsers often recover safely from this kind of error, but real problems do occur in some cases. In this example, many browsers correctly convert &copy=3 to ©=3, which may cause the link to fail. Since &lang; is the HTML entity for the left-pointing angle bracket, some browsers also convert &lang=en to 〈=en. And one old browser even finds the entity §, converting &section=2 to §ion=2.

To avoid problems with both validators and browsers, always use & in place of & when writing URLs in HTML:

<a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">...</a>

Note that replacing & with & is only done when writing the URL in HTML, where "&" is a special character (along with "<" and ">"). When writing the same URL in a plain text email message or in the location bar of your browser, you would use "&" and not "&". With HTML, the browser translates "&" to "&" so the Web server would only see "&" and not "&" in the query string of the request.

Have you read that?

i.e. use url_encode() properly....

whisher06

Hi again !
I tried to put into the constant file

ini_set('session_use_trans_sid','0');

but I also tried this:

$inis = ini_get_all();
echo "<pre>";
print_r($inis);
echo "</pre>";

and I've got this:

[session.use_trans_sid] => Array
(
[global_value] => 1
[local_value] => 1
[access] => 6
)

Could you explain me why ?
Take care.

bpat1434

what does your PHPinfo page show as the enabled stuff (should be a listing of --enable-XXX commands).

And what version of PHP are you using?

Weedpacket

Also check this part of php.ini:


; The separator used in PHP generated URLs to separate arguments.
; Default is "&".
;arg_separator.output = "&amp;"

And the corresponding page in the manual.

whisher06

Hi anyOne.
How are you ?
I hope fine.
Here is the list
I trust you 🙂
I put this into my main include file (Constant etc )

ini_set('session_use_trans_sid',0);
ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');

Thanks a lot again.
Bye-Bye

bpat1434

Does it work? does it not work?

ini_set('session_use_trans_sid',0);

That's not completely right, it should be:

ini_set('session.use_trans_sid',0);

Notice the "." instead of the "_"

Sorry, that was my bad 😉

whisher06

Hi again.
It's enough, it doesn't work.
I asked for help to my web hosting 🙂
I tried your new version but into phpinfo
I got

session.use_trans_sid On On

Ah sooob 🙂
I'll catch you up on my trouble.
Thanks again for your help and advice.
Bye-Bye.
Greetings from Italy 😃

bpat1434

Well, it doesnt' change in your PHP.ini... it changes on the page that you run the app on.... so unless you call ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', 0); before you call phpinfo(); it won't make a difference in the PHPInfo page...

whisher06

Ok. I got it.
I've a headache.
I think to give up trobling 🙂
But 🙂)))))) the trouble doesn't change.
Take care

whisher06

The last news !
I got this by my host:
You can use the following directive in the .htaccess file.
php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
but tomorrow !!!!
Bye.

whisher06

Hi.
I'm sorry to disturb you again
I got over my disease 🙂
How can I create (I mean the syntax) the .htaccess file
with

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off

and where can I put it ?
I'm very weak managing with apache.
BYe

whisher06

Hi.
I'm sorry to disturb you again
I got over my disease 🙂
How can I create (I mean the syntax) the .htaccess file
with

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off

and where can I put it ?
I'm very weak managing with apache.
BYe

whisher06

Sorry now I go to bed 😉

Blulagoon

I hope the headache is better tomorrow 🙂

bpat1434

open a text file, paste the line your host gave you into it

Save it as htaccess.txt
Save it in ASCII format!! That's important

Upload it, then rename it to .htaccess

Then just try your page again.