Re: Reliability of sessions

On the page you start the session, ${session_name()} isn't set. so if you need that on the first page too, you should do the following <?php session_start(); if (!isset(${session_name()})) { ${session_name()} = session_id(); } ?> "Thomas Deliduka" <thomas@neweve.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:B8D23D74.7064%thomas@neweve.com... I use them because 'sid' isn't always populated and, who knows, some browser may not handle cookies right and then lose a session. I do it to make sure, to be absolutely sure that it will work. On 4/4/02 5:19 PM this was written: > If you made your link like this: <a href="filename.php?<?=sid?>"> it tacks > on the name plus the session id. If cookies are enabled you will only see > the session id passed through the url on the first page.. After that you > wont, thus the little script I wrote so the '?' doesn¹t show up. Now if > cookies arent enabled you will see the session name and id passed through > the url every single time. There is absolutely no reason to use those > functions since php takes care of that stuff for you. -- Thomas Deliduka IT Manager ------------------------- New Eve Media The Solution To Your Internet Angst http://www.neweve.com/