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Question

unique session reference ?

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
May 25, 2010
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So I'm using session management and I need a unique session identifier to use as a key field in a table

Is session.sessionID ok for this ?

table 'webCart'

sessionID, itemID, qty

I'm happy once the session times out, the cart row(s) won't be available

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Inspiring

I think you'd be safer with a uuid. Another way to ensure a unique value would be to concatonate a timestamp to the end of the session id.

Dax_TrajeroAuthor

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Thanks Dan

So the session ID isn't truly unique ?

I'll use the UUID function then

I'll save the UUID as a session variable

I'll use the variable as my unique key in the webCart table, so I can insert / retrieve rows for that particular session

Inspiring

To see if a session id is unique, go to a page where you can get one. Record the value. Re-boot your browser and go back to the same page. Are the values the same or different?