[phplib] Newbie - Is it necessary to pass Session ID in URL? From: jeff alerta (jalerta <email protected>)
Date: 10/09/00

Hi All,

  I am new to PHPLIB and I had a question on whether it is necessary to
explicitly pass a session ID to other pages on a site?

  To test this I created three pages with a page_open() and a
page_close(). Each page also had a "echo $my_session" to display the
session id value if it exists.

  I then created a regular link that linked one page to the other.

  When I go from page to page, the session id is displayed on the page,
even though I am not passing it as part of the URL. So I assume that the
session id is being maintained by the browser itself.

  My question is: are there any possible 'gottchas' if I do this for a
shopping cart? I use the Cart object to handle the actual shopping, so
that is not a problem.

   I am just concerned about keeping track of my session id so that
after a purchase transaction I can save that session id with the order
information into a MySQL database table.

  Are there any potential problems with not explicitly passing the
session id?

  Am I correct in thinking that the session id will be retained by the
browser unless I actively delete the session OR I close the browser,
even if I do not explicitely pass the session id in the URL?

   Thank you for any and all help.

jeff alerta
jalerta <email protected>

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