Re: Sessions and sub directories

any php.ini vars can be set in an .htaccess doc .htaccess php_value session.use_cookies 0 this will force sessions to no use cookies and therore transverse through any dir you like. -- Chris Lee lee@mediawaveonline.com "Jamie Smith" <jssmith@student.cowan.edu.au> wrote in message news:085f01c14771$a28cd660$76b53bcb@mshome.net... From my knowledge Sessions (eg sessionID) as I have them are being sent by PHP as a cookie to track individulas across the 'stateless' internet. When a cookie is sent it can have it's acess restricted to a certain domain or even directory and even a life span. I am presuming that these restrictions are set in the way that the php.ini file is configured or possible in some undocumented feature of session_start(). as for your comment of the state of the browser I presume you mean weather or not they accept cookies ...well this is not the point that I am worried about as this is a intranet development that I am playing with and I have control over the browsers that will be acessing the site and there configeration. Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: sagar N Chand To: Jamie Smith Cc: php Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:00 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sessions and sub directories i think sessions are independent of the directory on the server. they are only dependent on the state of the browser. sounds correct ? /sagar ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Smith To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:10 PM Subject: [PHP] Sessions and sub directories I curently have sessions working fine within the directory in which I start them... but I need them to be still active when I move down a directory. What I have is a directory of pages for a user and a sub direcory eg /administrator/ with the maintenence pages. When a autherised user logs in the session data is stored with the user name and pass and they are displayed with a linkt to the file /administrator/default.php when the page is run it again checks for autherisation rights on the session data ...but It no loger exists and they are "header'd" back down to the general users area where the session data is again found. I'm guessing this has to do with the way the cookies are set when sent but I do not have access to the ISP to reconfigure thier php.ini files or any thing. Any help apreciated. JAmie