session_id() = ARRAY?

paulblo

I have a problem, when I put the session_id on a URL like

<a href=http://some.other.server.com/testing2.php?sess=<?=session_id();?>>goto another server</a>

it prints out ..*?sess=Array

it doesn't seem to get the actual session_id();??

What is the problem?

Anon

Read this page http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php.

What you probably want is <?=SID?> not <?=session_id() ?>, but there are other things to consider so read that page carefully.

paulblo

?<?=SID?> will not work because I am doing a credit card validation leaving my site sending vars to a validation server and the validation server returnes to a URL that I specify. I need it to come back to a page and identify the order with a session_Id

I will need the accual session Id

session_id($SID);

to do this and was not sure why it's value is Array? when session_id() returns a string?

Anon

I don't know have you tried dumpping what is returned by session_id()? Maybe the documentation is wrong, or it works differently for the version/os that you are using.

var_dump(session_id());

paulblo

var_dump(session_id()); doesn't seem to change anything. It still prints out as Array?

Anon

dont u destroy ther session when it ends?session_destoy()

paulblo

I am not sure what you meen destroy session? I would like to keep the session. In the session $SESSION array is all of the shopping cart information. I send the users information to a credit card auth server and a script there sends the status order number and a few other things. what sucks is if the session is not alive the cart is empty for security I made it so if the cart is empty it will return to the home page. I guess the session is already started and doesn't need to be started again I am not exactly sure what is going on??

Anon

Using var_dump() should give you the structure of the array so that you can see what is in the value returned by session_id(). It's not to be put into you script it's for debugging. If the value displayed by var_dump() is "Array" then that is the string that is returned by session_id().