How to access Magento user's session from outside Magento?

php oop session magento e-commerce
Martijn Heemels picture Martijn Heemels · Jul 8, 2009 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

Im trying to access the Magento customer session in another part of my website.

domain.com/shop/ <- Magento
domain.com/test.php

The shop itself works like a charm, however im trying to determine within test.php if a customer is logged in, so I can display his name with a link to his cart.

Contents of test.php so far:

<?php
require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/shop/app/Mage.php';
umask(0);
Mage::app('default');
Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));
var_dump(Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn());
?>

I keep getting bool(false) returned. I'm logged into Magento at domain.com/shop/ so ‘true’ is expected.

Am I forgetting something?

Answer

jason picture jason · Jul 8, 2009

I would recommend checking the path of the cookie that Magento sets. Most likely, it is set to /shop, so the cookie will not be accessible to your file above it.

You can modify the path that Magento uses to set its cookie in the control panel under System -> Configuration -> Web (under the General heading) -> Session cookie management

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