deleting session cookie

[jrap]

Hello,
I need to delete the cookie that a session sets. I know there is an option in php.ini to make a session not set a cookie, but I do not have access to the config files. Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

[freddydoesphp]

Set in an .htaccess file, one option is to set a per session cookie that merely sets a cookie with the value of the session id and then have the session hadler be a MySQL database to keep track of session variables, check out http://www.hotscripts.com There is a MySQL session handling lcass that may be of interest to you.

[jrap]

Thanks for the reply.

I was trying:

        setcookie(session_name(),"",0); 
	session_start();
        $id = session_id();

So that $id is a new, unique value, rather than the value in the session cookie, but that did not seem to be working. I am doing this because with a script I am creating, I pass $id along through the URL. The id in the url can be changed (making the login screen appear again), but when you login once again, the id is the same as the id that was changed in the url. This problem does not happen when I change my browser settings to not accept cookies.
Any ideas?

<Edited by robp on 12-17-2000 at 09:09 PM>

[jrap]

I tried using
ini_alter(session.use_cookies,0) or die ("ERROR"); at the start of my script, but got the "ERROR" thus meaning the variable in php.ini could not be changed. Any ideas why this happened?

[jrap]

Although it seems like I am talking to myself, if anyone is curious as to why tje ini_alter() did not work, it was because I forgot the quotes

ini_alter("session.use_cookies","0");
works perfectly. If anyone does not want a cookie set when using sessions, use this unless you have access to edit php.ini directly.