PHPSESSID printing two different ways

[Anon]

Hey,

I'm trying to pass on the session id in URLS (to avoid those evil cookies!) but I'm getting a really strange problem - when entering it into a URL and testing on two different machines, it appears in client code two different ways.
<A HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?PHPSESSID\">

This generates two URLS, one correct that puts the ampersand in with 'PHPSESSID=whatever' and the other generates only the ID itself, which interferes with other variables passed through. What should I do/use? I know I may have it wrong, but still, why would this generate two different results?

Cheers,
Ben

[lawnmowerman]

I think it may be due to 2 different possible issues.

1) I think, instead of using:
<A HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?PHPSESSID\">
use
"<A HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?PHPSESSID=" . $PHPSESSID . "\">"
This should populate the URL as you expect.

or

2) If you are building the URL within a function, be sure
to either pass the variables you need ($PHP_SELF and $PHPSESSID) as params or specify them as global. Either of these ways will make sure your variables are available within your function.

Hope this helps!

-Rich