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Jeremy Roy
Jeremy Roy

Reputation: 1291

phpbb session across folders

I'm using a phpBB (2.0.22) in a website, located at myWebSite.com/forum

I am creating some other pages in myWebSite.com/otherForders

What I want, is to check whether a person in logged into myWebSite.com/forum when they are in myWebSite.com/otherForders

Wondering if that's possible.

I've tried session_start(); print_r($_SESSION); in myWebSite.com/otherForders/index.php and all I get is Array ( ) (an empty array).

Anyone with a solution? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 499

Answers (2)

Alex Emilov
Alex Emilov

Reputation: 1271

You should integrate your board with your code

Here is sample ::

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = './';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

//
// Start session management
//
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);
//
// End session management
//

Then use

$userdata['username'], $userdata['user_id'] & etc. $userdata has array with values from users_table for your board for logged in user.

Upvotes: 1

Shakti Singh
Shakti Singh

Reputation: 86416

The session variable will not accessible in this way. The session cookie of your phpbb is stored at myWebSite.com/forum and when you visit pages out of forum directory ie (otherForders) the session of myWebSite.com/forum will not available there and a new session will be stared which is obviously a blank array until you assign some values and session cookie for this session is stored at myWebSite.com/otherForders.

You have to tell php to save session on root domain which is myWebSite.com so that session will be available in all other directories.

You could do this with ini_set.

You have to put ini_set before the session_start() is called. I don't know about phpbb if they give any admin interface to change the session cookie domain value. You should check if phpbb provides this.

ini_set('session.cookie_domain','.myWebSite.com');

you could also try

session_set_cookie_params(0, '/', '.myWebSite.com');
session_start();

Upvotes: 1

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