Localhost session_id problem

[mancroft]

Localhost session_id problem

Hello

I am running PHP off localhost on my home computer and putting a shopping cart together.

The code below sets the session_id OK but when I change from page1.php to page2.php, the session_id number is changed when it should stay the same.

Is there a setting for session cookies in a PHP config file on the local machine that needs changing?

Thanks.

function gettheid(){if (isset($_COOKIE["theshoppingcartdemoid"])){return $_COOKIE["theshoppingcartdemoid"];}else{session_start();
setcookie("theshoppingcartdemoid", session_id(), time() + 3600 * 24 *30, "/", "",0);return session_id();}}

 

[sleipnir214]

<facetious>
You don't have much use for code indentation, do you?
</facetious>

Out of curiosity, why are you setting the session cookie yourself? Why not just invoke session_start() and then manipulate $_SESSION?





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[mancroft]

Hello sleipnir214

I am doing it this way because I originally got the code for a basic shopping cart out of a book and this was how it was done.

I have had this working before on a remote server but can't get it to work on my local machine and thought there might be a setting in php config or whatever that hadn't been set properly.

Ref your question: Is there a better way of doing it?

 

[mancroft]

SOLVED

"you should use session_start(); at the beginning of every page, not just in a conditional.