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Owen
Owen

Reputation: 7577

cakephp (1.3) - accessing session vars in views

If I do a print_r($_SESSION) in my page.ctp I get:

Array
(
    [Config] => Array
        (
            [userAgent] => b3346028c15f82ac5d4b25c4f50d8718
            [time] => 1281034201
            [timeout] => 100
        )

    [manualLogout] => 1
    [Message] => Array
        (
        )

    [Auth] => Array
        (
            [redirect] => /events/add/controller:events
        )

    [facebookSynced] => 1
)

The var facebookSynced I set in my controller with $this->Session-write() - and there it is in the session as expected. But when I do a pr($this->Session) or a pr($session) from page.ctp I get:

SessionHelper Object
(
    [helpers] => Array
        (
        )

    [__active] => 1
    [valid] => 
    [error] => 
    [_userAgent] => b3346028c15f82ac5d4b25c4f50d8718
    [path] => /
    [lastError] => 
    [security] => medium
    [time] => 1281016202
    [sessionTime] => 1281034202
    [watchKeys] => Array
        (
        )

    [id] => 
    [host] => 
    [timeout] => 
    [base] => /Eclipse/Calc_1.3.2/trunk
    [webroot] => /Eclipse/Calc_1.3.2/trunk/
    [here] => /Eclipse/Calc_1.3.2/trunk/users/login
    [params] => Array
        (
            [controller] => users
            [action] => login
            [named] => Array
                (
                )

            [pass] => Array
                (
                )

            [plugin] => 
            [form] => Array
                (
                )

            [url] => Array
                (
                    [url] => users/login
                )

            [models] => Array
                (
                    [0] => User
                )

        )

    [action] => login
    [data] => 
    [theme] => 
    [plugin] => 
)

How do I access my session with the facebookSynced var in it, and what is the difference between these two 'sessions'. Extra info: in core.php I have:

Configure::write('Session.save', 'php');
Configure::write('Session.cookie', 'CAKEPHP');
Configure::write('Session.save', 'custom_sesh');
Configure::write('Session.timeout', '180');
Configure::write('Session.checkAgent', true);
Configure::write('Session.start', true);

The contents of custom_sesh is just one line:

ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 0);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4707

Answers (3)

talelcool
talelcool

Reputation: 423

if you are using 

$this->Session->write('facebookSynced',true);

in your controller,

just use 

$foo = $this->Session->read('facebookSynced');

in the view.

as simple as that ! :)

Upvotes: 0

David Yell
David Yell

Reputation: 11855

In your view you should be using the Session helper.

echo $session->read('Key.value');

Where you have written in something like, in your controller,

$this->Session->write('Key.value','example');

Upvotes: 2

Matt B
Matt B

Reputation: 8643

The first result from print_r($_SESSION) is a list of the values of the actual session variable.

The second result from pr($this->Session) shows the contents of CakePHP's Session helper object.

Both are entirely different things. If you wanted to access the value of your session variable facebookSynced you would probably want to do something like:

$foo = $_SESSION["facebookSynced"];

Upvotes: 3

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