track_vars

[Anon]

How can I track user_id without showing it on the url

page.php?usr_id=bla bla bla...

is it related to this ?track_vars?
is this a PHP configuration variable?

André

[Anon]

I dont know about the track_vars but i can suggest you for sending user_id's value without showing url on address bar.

as i used this, you can set the user_id's value as a cookie and you can call it the same variable name. it remains until close the browser..

setcookie ("user_id",$user_id,"phpbuilder.com");

after submiting form or sending url to next page you can call it directly as $user_id

Rams.

[Anon]

Session works too.

[Anon]

i dont think session will work on PHP 3 ver. session will supports only on php4.0
anyway you can use session_register()

[Anon]

PHP has two ways of tracking user's session to allow you to access their session variables. One method is to use cookies, the other is to use a transparent session id.

Cookies aren't guaranteed to always be there since some companies have a corporate policy, misguided as it may be, that cookies are some kind of big security issue.

Transparent ids, which is the method you describe, works by always post-pending the session id to the end of every URL back to the server.

The choice is decided at compile time, and I'm not sure there is a php.ini directive to change it's behaviour after building PHP.

To turn on transparent session id propagation, you would use the --enable-trans-sid switch at with the configure script.

So, all you need to do is rebuild php without that switch.