Hi again! I'm using the session component, as documented at http://manual.cakephp.org/view/173/sessions , and it's storing and retrieving all the session variables I set just fine.
However, I'm trying to find the session ID - or anything else that's unique to each visitor, but doesn't change each time they load a new page - and I'm getting a bit stuck here. I've tried echoing out PHP's session ID, as documented at www.php.net/session_id , but it seems to change each time a page is loaded. I'm assuming CakePHP is doing magical things with sessions that I just shouldn't interfere with lest I break something, but please correct me if I'm wrong about that. So I looked at what $this->Session is storing, figuring that maybe it's storing some kind of consistent ID somewhere. The closest I could find was $this->Session->_userAgent , but that appears to just be a hash of the browser name, nothing else, as someone else using the same browser even on a different network will get the same value. So is there anything that acts like a regular, consistent session ID? If not, I can just set a hash of the user's browser, IP address, and the current timestamp at the exact moment they visit the site and set that as a regular session variable (ie each time the user loads a page, check for this session variable, and if it's not set, generate and set it), but that seems a bit long winded and a case of reinventing the wheel when this is exactly what session IDs are for. Thanks for any suggestions, Zoe. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
