Re: [PHP] url rewriting within sessions - confused newbie needs help - [FIXED]

2003-12-14 Thread Peter Walter
I finally discovered the problem. There was extra whitespace after the php closing tag ?> that was being interpreted as part of the header. Removing the whitespace fixed the problem. Peter Peter Walter wrote: Mike, I hope you mean session_start(). Yes, I did. Getting a bit dyslexic nowadays.

Re: [PHP] url rewriting within sessions - confused newbie needs help

2003-12-11 Thread Peter Walter
Mike, I hope you mean session_start(). Yes, I did. Getting a bit dyslexic nowadays. Well, you would, because PHP would use the value from the PHPSESSID= URL parameter. ... except that on the second call, the url (as displayed by the browser) does not contain the PHPSESSID parameter, yet I am

Re: [PHP] url rewriting within sessions - confused newbie needs help

2003-12-11 Thread Peter Walter
Jason, Thanks for your help. It is a little clearer to me now. However, I have visited php sites that *claim* to be using session management but where the links do not have the session id appended, and there are no variables being passed in the url for links. The url is always in the form "www

Re: [PHP] url rewriting within sessions - confused newbie needs help

2003-12-11 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 11 December 2003 14:16, Peter Walter wrote: > From the book "Core PHP programming", 3ed ; > > "As stated earlier, PHP sends session identifiers with cookies, but a > browser may refuse them. PHP can detect when a browser does not accept > cookies, and in this situation it modifies all

[PHP] url rewriting within sessions - confused newbie needs help

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Walter
From the book "Core PHP programming", 3ed ; "As stated earlier, PHP sends session identifiers with cookies, but a browser may refuse them. PHP can detect when a browser does not accept cookies, and in this situation it modifies all forms and links to include the session identifier." My php pag