[Techtalk] PHP, session variables & cookies

Kathryn Hogg kjh at flyballdogs.com
Mon Mar 7 05:49:35 EST 2005


conor.daly at cod.utvinternet.com said:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:41:03AM -0600 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Kathryn Hogg thought:
>> http://us3.php.net/session
>>
>> My understanding is that session ids are typically stored with cookies.
>> The session id is used by PHP to map to a file that contains all the
>> session variables.
>
> I kinda thought php's session functions would use cookies if such were
> available on the client machine but would use some sort of serverside
> tracking if cookies were not an option.  I'm completely not sure of that
> though...

Thats why I qualified by response with 'typically' and provided the link. 
Sue of course should compare things on that page with her php config to
see how things actually are working on her server.

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Kathryn
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