Re: sessions without cookies ???

From: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:03:22 +0000
Subject: Re: sessions without cookies ???
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You can use sessions without cookies. In fact, I am in the process of moving my entire site off of cookies. I had to figure this out the hard way. Here are the limitations: 1) you cant use any of PHPs prebuilt session functions, they all use cookies. 2) you can't use --enable-trans-sid... it only works with the prebuilt functions. So, what I am doing is : Every time someone hits any page on my site, if $session is not set, it writes /tmp/$session.php ($session being a randomly generated string). I include this file at the top of every page. I write all of the necessary user variables to this file. Then, all I have to do is append ?session=$session to every link and pass $session in hidden fields with every form. If you are using templates this is not difficult to implement. I would appreciate any feedback on this system, and I hope that helps. Dan On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 hentis@twilyt.com wrote: > Hi there .. > > somebody pointed out that session doesn't work without using cookies .. > I thought sessions is a good way to NOT use cookies. > > can somebody comment ? > > Henti > > > > -- > 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 > >

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