[UPHPU] MySQL PHP 5 Session-Based Hit Counter

[John David Anderson]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Brandon Stout wrote:

> Jacob Wright wrote:
>> Hey Brandon,
>>
>> I'm not getting any cookies set on any of your pages (i.e. http:// 
>> bstout.securesites.net isn't working for me either). The headers  
>> being sent to my browser are setting the cookie path to /tmp which  
>> says if I'm at http://mscis.org/tmp then the cookie will be valid.  
>> Make sure your cookie path is set to a plain ol' slash (/).
>>
>> Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=8oduagb1i4s0lu4r2olkrnkc97; path=/tmp
>>
>> Hope this solves it!
>>
>> Jacob
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jacob Wright
>> Within Code LLC
>
>
> I thought the path was for the server-side cookie. I've set the  
> path to /, but it's still incrementing every refresh.  It seems  
> both sites increment every refresh now.  Any other ideas?
>
> Also, isn't the point of a session to avoid client-side cookies?

The client side cookie only keeps a session id. That id points to all  
the session data on the server.

-- John