PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 16:36:07 -0500 30 <![CDATA[VoucherTrader.co.uk Blog: A Further Problem With PHP Session IDs and Google]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4651 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4651 this look at some more issues that can be caused by session IDs with the indexing that Google performs.

While search for the VoucherTrader site in Google I noticed that the description for some pages was coming up as a PHP error about sessions. I actually thought I'd fixed this problem before by preventing PHP from creating sessions when the browsing user's user agent was the Googlebot. Unfortunately I was wrong...

Come to find out, he figured out that, at the time the GoogleBot was coming through, the PHP install wasn't making a session for it. For a fix, he threw in a check to ensure that the user, based on the HTTP_USER_AGENT value, would start the session correctly. The code is included in the post...]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:48:32 -0600