Sessions and Persistent Sessions
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I recently had the need to be able to add sessions to a site I was building in concrete, but this was needed to be done outside of the concrete environment - I had a php script that was called, this would then need to check if the $_SESSION['uID'] was set or not, then depending on this it would then create a new session. This new session would need to be accessible from within the concrete5 environment.
I noticed that after creating this script I couldn't access any concrete created sessions from within the script, nor could any session that I created within my script be accessible within the concrete environment.
I spent a fair amount of time browsing the forums trying to find out if anyone had had this problem before and if it was ever resolved.
I found that doing this:
Would fix the problem, however this would only fix it if you had already been on the concrete environment. I was back to square one.
Then I worked out the solution. If I did this:
Then all the sessions that I create I will be able to access within the concrete5 environment. Problem solved!
Where 'CONCRETE5' is the value of the global variable SESSION set in the config/base.php file.
I hope that this helps anyone encountering a similar issue to what I had.
I noticed that after creating this script I couldn't access any concrete created sessions from within the script, nor could any session that I created within my script be accessible within the concrete environment.
I spent a fair amount of time browsing the forums trying to find out if anyone had had this problem before and if it was ever resolved.
I found that doing this:
session_id($_COOKIE['CONCRETE5']); session_start();
Would fix the problem, however this would only fix it if you had already been on the concrete environment. I was back to square one.
Then I worked out the solution. If I did this:
session_name('CONCRETE5'); session_start();
Then all the sessions that I create I will be able to access within the concrete5 environment. Problem solved!
Where 'CONCRETE5' is the value of the global variable SESSION set in the config/base.php file.
I hope that this helps anyone encountering a similar issue to what I had.
