Posted by Ivan Marsh on 05/23/07 22:13

On Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:24 -0700, laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using PHP 4.4.4 with Apache 2.2. What I want is that if a customer
> visits any page of the top level directory of my site with this string
> passed in the URL's query string, "RID=xxx", I would like a session
> variable called "RID" with the value "xxx" to be created. However, I
> would like to avoid putting this code
>
> session_start();
> if (!empty($_REQUEST['RID'])) {
> $_SESSION['RID'] = trim(strtoupper($_REQUEST['RID']));
> } // if
>
> on every page in my top level directory. Does anyone know a more
> efficient way?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

Read up on require_once.

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