Posted by news@celticbear.com on 05/10/06 00:11

We have a huge PHP e-commerce site that relies totally on PHP sessions
and cookies.
We need to create a demo version of the site for potential clients to
use that does NOT show the original URL in the browser, but we can't
just simply copy the site and database over to to a new URL.

My first thought was to set up a site at the new URL and then include
the PHP site in a frame... but the PHP sessions prevent us from doing
this.

I'm inheriting this site, so I don't really know how the PHP sessions
work to well, but from what I've read about sessions, frames is nearly
impossible from the way the site is set up. But I don't know enough
about PHP sessions to know what kind of questions to ask.

Anyway, is there some ways that the URL can be completely masked and
yet still allow sessions to work?

Thanks for any pointers or direction!
Liam

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