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

Thanks to everyone for their help on this issue.

Now the question is: Should every link on the site pass the session
id as part of the URL or just those pages that directly relate to the
shopping cart?

My hosting service only provides PHP3 so I cannot use the built-in
sessions that PHP4 provides. I must use PHPLIB for session
tracking. I have been able to get all the files in my site to execute
PHP code by using the Apache "AddType" directive in my
.htaccess file.

So it is no problem to get the PHP session id code to execute from
index.html, for example.

But the question remains, should I do this for all the links on my
site? Is there some point where the session should just be
abandoned? If a user jumps to another site, shouldn't I just let their
session end? Or, if while in the shopping cart they decide to go to
my index.html page? Although I can get the session id code to
work on the index.html page, should I?

I guess this is more a design issue than an implementation issue.

What do you suggest?

Thanks again for all the help.

jeff alerta
jalerta <email protected>

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