Changing COOKIES to SESSIONS

[Laban]

Is there a way to easily change the cookie system that is in the current version to php-sessions? There are people on my forum that are having problems because they can't use cookies where they are. It would be great with a cookie-free forum.

Will this be changed in the next version of YaBB-SE?

[Joseph Fung]

I'm sure there's a way, but I haven't got code for you.

Yes it will be changed.

[Laban]

I just searched throught the source files and found the string "setcookie" 29 times. It just occured to me that it's pretty much that has to be done to get it to work perfectly without cookies. The setcookie -part is probably the easiest part.

To get it all right, the cookie sessionID should be added to all links (asdf.php?SesID=l234bn32lk4n2) and not stored as a cookie (as many prefers).

Do you have any idea of when a no-cookie version will be released?

[Joseph Fung]

I have no idea about anticipated release dates - we're not close though.  Leave it at that.

[Michael]

Do you have any idea of when a no-cookie version will be released?

If you're going to do sessions, it's not a "no-cookie" thing. It uses cookies if possible, and if not it generates a session id.

[Laban]

Uhm.... not according to what I have read. Sessions are "serverside-cookies", nothing is stored on the client.

[Joseph Fung]

The way it works is the server stores the data you want on the server.  BUT it tries to store the session ID in a cookie on the client machine.  If it can't store the cookie, it looks to use the sid as it's passed in the URL.

So while the majority of the data is on the server, it's possible that a sid cookie may be created on the client.

[Laban]

I see.  

[Greg Robson]

In simple terms:

If the cookie works - use it,
if not, then add it on to the end of the url so PHP can access it

Best of both worlds