how to access variables on a external page....

[willms_jay]

Ok, I'm sure this has been asked many times before, but I've never recieved a straight answer!

How can I access certain variables (like the userid for example) from an external page. eg. test.php

I know if the user has cookies on, i can do this :

PHP Code:


<?php

$bbuserid = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['bbuserid'];

echo $bbuserid;

?>

which would display the users current user number....

but this only works half the time. what if the user does not have cookies installed?

any hints here on a more reliable way to do this?

thanks.

..jordan willms