Maintaining session id with links in FCKeditor content

**cameroti** · 04-25-2006, 05:14 PM

Hi, heres a curly one...

When i add a link in content generated by FCKeditor it will terminate the user session if they follow it (with the normal consequences of losing the cart contents for guests and logging out customers).

I understand how to maintain the session id using the tep_href_link function, but it is not possible to embed the php in the FCKeditor source without it being mutated! Regardless, even it could be successfully embedded, in general the content it generates (eg category descriptions, articles) is passed to the SQL database and called from php when it is parsed, so any php called from the database would not be parsed a second time if that makes sense.

I don't have a problem with the static content pages I have added as I can edit them directly. But I am at my wits end for content that must go via FCKeditor and the database.

As an example check out this newsletter content - which is stored using the article manager:

http://www.craftainers.com.au/articl...?articles_id=2

As compared with this static page I have updated, which maintains the session id:

http://www.craftainers.com.au/tour.php?

The obvious concern here is the frustration it generates from customers must result in lost sales.

Any thoughts?
Regards
Tim

**cameroti** · 04-27-2006, 01:26 AM

Well I have continued to look at this, but can now declare myself officially stumped.... any thoughts or suggestions much appreciated. At this stage my conclusion is that it is not possible to maintain session id's for links generated through FCKeditor.

Cheers
Tim

**jpf** · 04-27-2006, 07:10 AM

Yes that is true - as FCK is a STATIC HTML editor - that meaning that you can't use PHP code inside of it or any other variable. Every link has to be a static link and the same for everyone. You might want to look at storing the sesion in cookies only.....(force cookies...) but that has enought problems.....