Hi,

I have seen other DBman sites have as one of their hidden fields "sid" and the value is a whole bunch of numbers. My first question is, what is this used for. My second question is, how can I call for this too.

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JFrost

I've never seen "sid." I have seen "uid" which is the user's identity after they've logged in -- their username and whole bunch of numbers. This is a hidden field that is created automatically in html.pl.

If I'm wrong and there is a "sid" field, could you give me an example of a site where you saw it?


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JPD

Hi,

Actually I have seen this at http://www.vitaminprice.com . I know this site was created with DBman, but I don't know what this is myself, I was hoping you would know.

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JFrost

I have no idea what that is. I did at least finally find what you were talking about.


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JPD

as that is a commercial site, could that be a Sale Identifier?

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cybergaz

I suppose it could be. But it's not a variable that DBMan uses. Unless it's a field name.

I just looked at it again and it does appear to be some sort of generated number that changes from one entry to the next. Maybe there's a counter file to keep track of the number.

Ah. Here's something from the site:

Since you obviously are not a competitor, you might write to the site owner and ask him.



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JPD