maintaining state

@silent11Oct 06.2004

could someone show me some code that they use to keep track of a person — I’m playing around with sessions, however once the browser is clossed the person looses the sessionID. I want to be able to keep that ID even after the browser closes. I guess I could just set a cookie manually, but I was hoping that there would be something I can do with start_session() to make it more sticky.

How do you achieve this?

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@ShrineDesignsOct 06.2004 — #you can control the "lifetime" of a session with session_cache_expire([int new_cache_expire]), you must call session_cache_expire() before every call to session_start()

@silent11authorOct 06.2004 — #That is what I thought. Why then does this page give me a different sessionID after I

1) open a browser, close it, then

2) open it up again?

[code=php]
 <?php 
 session_cache_expire(60*24*31);
 $cache_expire = session_cache_expire();
 
 
 session_start(); 
 header("Cache-control: private");
 
 ?>
 
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
 <title>PHP Sessions</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 
 <?php echo session_id(); ?>
 
 </body>
 </html>
 
 [/code]

@ShrineDesignsOct 06.2004 — #because you are not telling it to load a session, example:

[code=php]if(isset($_REQUEST['PHPSESSID']))
 {
 session_start($_REQUEST['PHPSESSID']);
 }
 else
 {
 session_start();
 }[/code]

@silent11authorOct 07.2004 — #Thanks!

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