my GIDTopsites script is 85% ready... it was built from the ground up (so MAJOR personal achievement for me)

but i am stuck trying to get the sessions to work (if the user has NOT enabled cookies). so, i want the session id to be 'passed' through the url instead but don't know how - any ideas?

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OK, as far as I know the developers of PHP thought of this and have included a compile-time directive "--enable-trans-sid" which automatically appends the session id to the URL if the user has cookies turned off. How you test for this, I don't really know, but if it hasn't been happening for you, then I guess it's not there.

Also in php.ini there'll be an option to enable it. If you can, set it to

session.use_trans_sid = 1

If your host has this disabled, I heard there is a way of overriding this through your .htaccess files. I'll do more research & see if it's true.

Otherwise you'll just have to do it the old fashioned way.

Just call session_id() to obtain the session id. Then you'll have to append it manually to each link you create in a page - best left to a function really as it'll get very repetitive. So


You also have to worry about naming the session so that PHP won't create a brand spanking new session every time. Call the function session_name() before session_start() to reference the users session like so:


I hope this helps. Please note that I'm assuming register_globals = off.

Garth Farley

yes, u're right, i ACTUALLY got the session appended to the url (automatically) when I tested it for the first time - this despite my browser generally accepting cookies!

then, on the 2nd try, i lost it and it got inside a cookie and i cannot get it back despite switching cookies off for my browser.

so far, no one has reported any problems logging-in and staying logged in so i assume it's working on the LIVE server.

thanks anyway...

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