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Admin · 08-28-2003, 07:23 AM

when i am using sessions within PHP the first page that the user is on always generates a 'PHPSESSID' string at the end of all my links. how do i go about making those never show up? i think they are causing me problems with search engines.

word up.

sde · 08-28-2003, 08:58 AM

could it be a php.ini setting?

Admin · 08-30-2003, 01:30 PM

here is what i ended up using

PHP Code:


			
<?

$searchengines=array("Google", "Fast", "Slurp", "W3C_Validator");

$is_search_engine=0;

foreach($searchengines as $key => $val) {

if(strstr("$HTTP_USER_AGENT", $val)) {

$is_search_engine++;

}

} 



if($is_search_engine==0) {

session_start();

}

?>

i just resubmitted the site, so hopefully it will work out

bdl · 08-30-2003, 11:04 PM

I also found this, add to your .htaccess if you can't edit the php.ini file:

Code:

php_flag session.auto_start off
php_flag use_trans_sid off

Nitro · 09-03-2003, 09:04 AM

Why not have a go at making your own sessions. It's very simple, and I have found it much better. I was always having problems with php sessions when logging in, I would sometimes find that to login successfully I had to clear my cache. I dont know if anyone else has had this problem, but I did, and creating my own sessions prevented this, and also seemed to make thing more secure, because you could match an email and password to a session ID, so details dont show up in the browser.

Admin · 09-03-2003, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bdl
I also found this, add to your .htaccess if you can't edit the php.ini file:

Code:

php_flag session.auto_start off php_flag use_trans_sid off

if i set it up with "php_flag use_trans_sid off" then users with cookies off wouldnt be able to buy stuff