Drupal - How to get an anonymous user session id?
You're looking for PHP's session_id()
:
session_id() is used to get or set the session id for the current session.
Drupal stopped tracking anonymous sessions a few versions ago. If you want to trick Drupal into doing it again you need to make a module with a custom hook_init()
implementation.
/**
* Implements hook_init().
*
* <soapbox>The Drupal team decided to remove support for anonymous user sessions
* starting in Drupal 7.37. This fundamentally breaks several things related to Drupal.
* I cannot find any documentation of this change in any changeme dating back to 7.33.
* The answer comes to us from:</soapbox>
*
* https://dgtlmoon.com/drupal_7_anonymous_sessions
*/
function mymodule_init() {
drupal_session_start();
$_SESSION['nosave'] = TRUE;
}