Re: using <?=SID?> inside a function?

Call session_id(). ?PHPSESSID=session_id(). $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["PHPSESSID"] won't contain a value on the first page because the client browser hasn't sent the cookie yet (because it was just set). And your right in my opinion, forget about the constant SID. Charles ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:09 AM Subject: [PHP] using <?=SID?> inside a function? Hello all, I'm building some session management routines, and I only want to pass the session id in the URL when the user is not accepting cookies - I like to keep my URL's clean if possible, so I don't want to just use &gt;?=SID?%lt; willy nilly, by enabling trans-sid. I have a function that writes my links, which will add the session variable using ?PHPSESSID=$PHPSESSID, but that won't work on the same page that calls the session.start(). Here's how it works so far, when the user first hits the site, I set the cookie with session.start() and register a session variable called $use_sid boolean. I then send the cookie and the URL parameter. Subsequent pages check for the existence of $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["PHPSESSID"] and turns $use_sid on or off as necessary. I use a functions to write all of my html, including links, so it's easy for $use_sid to add the session id to all urls on the page when necessary. Here's my problem - on the page that starts the session, the url rewrite function adds the ?PHPSESSID= but not it's value. On the same test page, using &gt;?=SID?%lt; works fine. I can only assume that the &gt;?=SID?%lt; rewrite happens after the page code is written. Can anyone suggest a work around to make that value available, or provide syntax for using SID within a function. I have only seen it written as &gt;?=SID?%lt; which won't work for my use. Any suggestions - no example I've encountered treats the session id this way. Thanks, J!M -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net