On Sat, May 14, 2005 7:49 am, Brian V Bonini said: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 23:31, Jason Wong wrote: >> On Saturday 14 May 2005 09:42, Brian V Bonini wrote: >> >> > Yeah, I know session support is there and I DO NOT have it set to use >> > ONLY cookies. But if I disable cookies in the browser stuff relying on >> > sessions stops working. I'm using 5.0.3 >> >> > session.use_trans_sid >> > 0 >> > 0 >> >> Set that to 1. Sessions *are* cookies, they're cookies that have been >> set >> to expire when the browsing session finishes (ie when the browser is >> closed). > > I thought the idea was; cookies if available otherwise the session data > gets serialized and propagated in the URL? The later of which appears to > not work, for me, if applicable.... Sessions are *NOT* cookies. PHP sessions use *A* Cookie to maintain state -- specifically to indentify a singe user/browser on repeat HTTP connections. The session *data* is not going to be transmitted in the URL -- Only the Cookie name/value pair will go in the URL. Using Cookies, or using URL, the session DATA will be stored on the server in /tmp files -- Unless you change php.ini to store them somewhere else, in which case, again, the Cookie and URL only holds the ID and all the data goes wherever you store it: database, shared memory, or an army of elves for all PHP cares. If trans_sid is "not working" for you, let's narrow this down: If you do this: <?php session_start(); echo "<a href=\"yourdomainnamehere.com\">click me</a><br />\n"; ?> Do you see something like "?PHPSESSID=a847hjfu3734hgfjgurur" tacked on to the end of the URL? If not, trans_sid is NOT enabled. Did you restart Apache? Did you turn *OFF* Cookies? If PHP *can* use Cookies, I think it's gonna use Cookies, and not bother with the trans_sid stuff, though maybe it always puts it there. I never really dived into that. To be certain, though, turn off Cookies in php.ini and/or in your browser. Re-start Apache for your php.ini changes to kick in. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
