Session & Cookies

[RBP-Samuel]

Hello,

I am looking for some help, at the moment I am *just* learning php and I am working on changing our site a little.

When a user logs into the system a session is created and stored in the database (custom session not php session). The problem I have is that every link on the website must be formatted like this....

 <a href="filename.php<?php echo ?usersession=$usersession ?> </a>

If the link isn't sorted like that then the user is logged out. Right now I have managed to store $usersession in a cookie but my question is what would be the code I would need to be able to remove the session code after the filename.php and use cookies to store the session and use it on each page?

[psyon]

PHP sessions should use cookies automatically if they are available, and if not, last I looked it automatically put the session ID on the end of all internal links.

Are you not using PHPs built in sessions? If not, look into session_start() on php.net

[RBP-Samuel]

PHP sessions should use cookies automatically if they are available, and if not, last I looked it automatically put the session ID on the end of all internal links.

Are you not using PHPs built in sessions? If not, look into session_start() on php.net

Hello,

No these are custom sessions then placed in a DB so thats why I am trying to figure this out

I already knoww who to store the session in a cookie I just don't know what code to place on other pages to use the cookie.

[Mower]

from what you wrote this should help

$usersession = $_GET['usersession']; 

[ChrisOSX]

If your sessions are important to the site as they sound like they are, and you are storing them in cookies, I hope you are encoding the session ID before you are writing it to the cookie...

Depending on what else you are storing in your cookie you might need something like this:

if( issset( $_COOKIE[$name] ) )
{
  $cookievars = $_COOKIE[$name];
  if( $_GET['usersession'] == $cookievars['usersession'] )
  {
    // We are in the clear, do your thing...
   }
   else
   {
    // They don't match, don't do your thing...
   }
}