Posted by Jim Michaels on 03/02/06 22:47

"Norman Peelman" <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "John Howie" <johnhowie85@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1141055279.339488.125350@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>> Problem solved! Or at least a workaround. Instead of using sessions I'm
>> now using cookies on the client machine, since the data stored isn't
>> confidential, or passwords.
>>
>> It seems to be working perfectly fine now, though I don't know what
>> would happen if a user has disabled cookies. That's a huge relief,
>> thank you all for your help with this matter, if anyone does work out
>> what wasn't working with the sessions I'd be very interested to hear
>> it, as I can include it in my write up.
>>
>> John
>>
>
> John,
>
> Just out of curiosity, when you changed servers did you alter any links?
> PHP is usually set up to use both cookies and url based session handling.
> url based kicks in when cookies are not enabled but only works with fully
> qualified links:
>
> 1) <a href='http://www.yourserver.com/link.htm'>Link</a> <- will have the
> session id appended if cookies are disabled
> 2) <a href='link.htm'>Link</a> <- will not work as PHP won't add the
> session id to a short form link

funny, it seemed to work in my php file with relative link. or are you
saying the behaviour becomes flaky?

>
> and make sure that the 'temp' directory is set in php.ini so that PHP
> knows
> where to store the sessions...
>
> Norm
>
>

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