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Well I've been searching but without much luck on finding an answer. So my last resort is to post on the forum..

In my custom component how can I get the session_id of the current user? logged in or not.

The session_id is stored in $session_id . If you look at index.php in the root directory you can see were it is started.

Hope this helps.

You can do this way:

global $my;
$my->id

if ($my->id){
....
....
}

I hope it's gonna help...

I just don't manage! There are various threads in this forum about the session topic but I couldn't find an answer to my most simple question:

how can I retrieve the session_id?

$session_id is empty
$_SESSION['sesson_id'] is empty

I just need to know for my own scripts what user I'm dealing with so I can retrieve the unique id from the users table in order to store user specific data.

Well, since I don't need the session_id but only the user id I have solved the problem with:

$userInfo = $mainframe->getUser();
$user_id = $userInfo->id;

I would still be interested in how to obtain the sesson_id

the best way I found doing such stuff is

global $my;

$user_id = $my->user_id
$user_name = $my->name
$user_type = $m->account_type

etc.

This should get you the session id.

$session = &JSession::getInstance();
$session_id = $session->getId();

http://api.joomla.org/Joomla-Framework/ ... ssion.html

Hey, this is the Joomla 1.0 forum, you're posting 1.5 solutions...

So it is. Sorry about that, I was searching for how to find session id myself, and this was the forum i came to. I posted the solution I found without realizing this was only for 1.0.

not a problem, just needed to make sure, follow up readers will now.

I am attempting to use the $my->user_id to get the userID of the current Joomla user for an external application that I'm writing. It used to work under 1.0.11, but with the move to 1.0.15, it is now broken.

Are there specific files that have to be included (using 'include') in my code to allow me access to the $my data?