<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >session_id</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Session handling functions" HREF="ref.session.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="session_save_path" HREF="function.session-save-path.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="session_register" HREF="function.session-register.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.session-save-path.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.session-register.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.session-id" >session_id</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN25174" ></A >session_id -- Get and/or set the current session id</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN25177" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string session_id</CODE >(string [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >id</SPAN >]);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >session_id()</B > returns the session id for the current session. If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >id</I ></TT > is specified, it will replace the current session id. </P ><P > directory used to save session data. If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >path</I ></TT > is specified, the path to which data is saved will be changed. </P ><P > The constant <SPAN CLASS="systemitem" >SID</SPAN > can also be used to retrieve the current name and session id as a string suitable for adding to URLs. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This function was added in PHP 4.0. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.session-save-path.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.session-register.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >session_save_path</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.session.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >session_register</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >