regarding the session in PHP(its urgent please)

mandarchalke29

Dear sir,

I have created a chat application using PHP,Javascript and MySQL which is embedded in my web site. I have created a link to go from that website to chat application in the same browser. I have used a window.open to open a new window for chat application which will show you which users are online. Everytime when i click a user in the list a new window gets opened but the session used for both the windows is the same. I have taken that user's id from $user=$_GET['q]; where q is the userid. and stored the value of user in a session called $_SESSION[user_id]=$user; everytime when it opens a new window. The problem is that i need different session for different windows opened. Could anyone please help me. Its very urgent.

Mandar Chalke😕

YAOMK

I'm not too familiar with javascript, I'm learning as we speak. I'm not sure what you intend to do by creating multiple sessions within the same client, but there are two solutions I could think of:

In php.ini or in a .htaccess set the following values:
```
session.use_cookies 0
session.use_trans_sid 1
```
This will stop sessions from being written to coockies, you can pass your session around by appending it to the url or by using hidden fields.

Divide a session:

 $_SESSION['chat_session1']['chat_log'];
$_SESSION['chat_session2']['chat_log'];

mandarchalke29

YAOMK wrote:
I'm not too familiar with javascript, I'm learning as we speak. I'm not sure what you intend to do by creating multiple sessions within the same client, but there are two solutions I could think of:
In php.ini or in a .htaccess set the following values:
session.use_cookies 0
session.use_trans_sid 1
This will stop sessions from being written to coockies, you can pass your session around by appending it to the url or by using hidden fields.
Divide a session:
 $_SESSION['chat_session1']['chat_log'];
$_SESSION['chat_session2']['chat_log'];

Dear sir,

I have tried with your 1st option but it was not working. Can you please tell me what is the chat_log in the second option. Have you made any chat application? I am little bit of confused. I am using multiple sessions in the same client since i wanted to embed the chat application in that website itself. I am planning to make this application using different sessions for different users when i click on them in the list. is there any other alternative for making chat application much better. I have heard of one i.e. channels for chatting.

Could you please help me. I have got stucked badly.

Regards

mandar

mandarchalke29

Dear sir,

  I didnt get the significance of dividing the sessions in two parts. Since i want that if i click on two users two diferent windows will open which will be having 2 different sessions. The value of sessions could be different at both times. Means if i am chatting with first person from 1st window his session will be different. and vice versa. I have got stucked.

Please help me.

Mandar😕

YAOMK

Yes, so those are sessions to identify "chat sessions", not user sessions. Php built in session was designed in order to identify a single client/browser. For what you want to do it seems to me that you would have to use ajax and call a php function that would generate your own random session for that chat etc, you can always use $_SESSIONS to store the individual chat sessions and so on.

mandarchalke29

Yes sir. I think creating an random session will not be suitable since i have used that value of session variable for inserting into the database and also for other parts of the data. I can not use it as random value then i have to change the whole code. tell me one thing please that is using session is suitable for chat application. it will not make it bulkier. I am doubtful. Please tell me.

YAOMK

You will definitely have to come to a compromise and that will mean changing your code to some extent, to make your life easy you could write your solution in form of an object and make it modular. Ajax and some sort of "chat session" handling object is the best idea I could come off with. I'm sorry I couldn't help you further here. Best of luck.

mandarchalke29

Thank you for your prompt reply. I am watching for that one only which you have suggested to me. But let me tell you from my knowledge i think AJAX does not suport javascript to embedd in it. You have to keep the javascript in seperate file and to include that file in the ajax code. OK. i will try now. Thank you for your support. if you come up with some more stuff please inform me.

🙂