Understanding sessions

From: Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:38:38 +0000
Subject: Understanding sessions
Groups: php.general 
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I am trying to understand sessions are done with php. My "learning script" has the following: session_start(); if (isset($_SESSION['firstname'])) {
    $_SESSION['firstname'] = 'Todd';
} else {
    $_SESSION['firstname'] = 'Nobody';
} echo "SESSION: " . $_SESSION['firstname'] . "<br>"; echo 'SID: ' . SID . '<br>'; echo '<br /><a href="page_2.php?' . SID . '">page 2</a>'; SID is always empty. What have I missed? Todd

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