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What are some of the session variables like user name and if a person is logged in or not? I have been looking around for this information but am unable to find it.

Thanks,

-T

The information you're looking for is in the global object $my. Pull it into whatever function you're in and do a print_r on it to see all of the information for the currently logged in user.

I am embarrassed to say this but can you lend a brother some code that will show this????


Thanks again fur your help

If you're in the middle of a component, do this:



If you're in a function, you'll need to do this




That should do it.

U rock

Hi, 

This is great.  However, the $my variables actually come from the jos_users table - not the jos_sessions table.
$my->gid is not really the session id.

How do I get the real session id that is registered in the jos_sessions table?

Best regards,

Adrian

You should be able to get this out of $mainframe->_session.

I'm working on a similar issue. I attached some code to the bottom of index.php to save the username as a Session variable.

$_SESSION['user'] = $my->username;

This all seems to work fine on my Windows XP Pro test server, but when I uploaded the exact page to my web host it seems to lose the $_SESSION Variable entirely.

I'm testing it using a separate 'Session Test' page that displays all the $_SESSION variables.

Any ideas on what could be different that would cause this?

Thanks,
Chas

To get session id use this: $user->get['id'];
this will work in your page.

That will give you the user id, not the session id. You'll find the session id in the $_SESSION array.

Regards,
Niels

is it work fine in iframe, because i run this code in iframe but can't see any result.