A good admin always knows what's going on in his/her site. Once way to add security and flexability dynamically in PHP is with each visitor's unique PHP Session Id.

The only requirement for this to work on your web pages is that you have PHP in your hosting. IF you don't have php, you can signup with www.webune.com for a php plan. if you have php, continue on...

The function to show a user's phpsession id is : $PHPSESSID

I wrote this short script to show you how it works:

steps: copy and paste this code into your editor or a text editor(like notepad):

<?php
session_start();
?>
</HEAD>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style2 {color: #0066FF}
.style3 {
color: #009933;
font-weight: bold;
}
.style5 {color: #0066FF; font-weight: bold; }
-->
</style>
<BODY>
<strong>Displaying PHP SessionID by Tutorial Guide by Wallpaperama.com
</strong>
<h1 align="center" class="style2">Your PHPSESSID is: <?php echo session_id(); ?></h1>
<span class="style5">NOTE</span>: If you don't see a session id in tbe blue header above, hit <span class="style3">REFRESH</span> on your browser <br />
<br />
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<hr size="2" noshade>
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Save this file as wallpaperama-sessionid.php and uploaded to your Apache/ PHP server and open it with your browser (example: yourdomain.com/wallpaperama-sessionid.php), then it will display your own php sessionid as a demostration.

Thanks to our friends at www.webune.com, they have provide PHP hosting to show you a demo of how this script works:

CLICK HERE TO SEE DEMO


I hope this helps. If you are starting with PHP, you're going to like PHP, it has so many great features impossible to list here.

Thanks
Wallpaperama Team