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Posted by Michael Fesser on 10/16/60 12:00
..oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>Sebastian Lisken wrote:
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>> The obvious purpose is to pass on the session ID from one page
>> to the other. I hadn't done this before so I'm glad you're asking
>> about it. I have now read the section "Passing the Session ID" in
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php and it says that the ID is
>> passed on transparently if session.use_trans_sid is enabled. I can only
>> guess that the code was developed in a context where it wasn't. As it
>> turns out, on my WAMP 5 installation it is disabled too. I've enabled
>> it, taken away the <? echo SID; ?> part from one of my links, and seen
>> the effect of the option. Thanks for educating me there, but with that
>> experience I'd say it's good practice not to rely on the option (I don't
>> even know what the setting is on the production server that my work will
>> be transferred to, but the site has switched servers before so I don't
>> want to rely on the setting there anyway).
>>
>
>I always rely on it. If your hosting company doesn't support it, get a
>new hosting company. It's pretty standard in PHP. Every host I know of
>has it enabled.
All session configuration directives are marked as "PHP_INI_ALL", so you
can change them even with ini_set() at the beginning of your scripts.
Micha
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