How to get current session username from Joomla to php page

Aurogha · **Joined:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:21 pm **Posts:** 12

i need to get the current session username in my wapped php page! for do an experiment and verify the code working i write this code

Code:

global $my;
$username= $my->username;
print "my username is $username"

but the output is

Code:

my username is

how do i do? what's i wrong? help me plz

Robin · **Joined:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:41 am **Posts:** 15098

Moderator note; adjusted all caps subject, moving from General > 1.0 Development

Aurogha · **Joined:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:21 pm **Posts:** 12

sorry

Robin · **Joined:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:41 am **Posts:** 15098

No worries.

Try changing the "print..." to something like "echo $username".

If that works, you need to add that sentence to it, "my username is", but be sure to put that out of the php tags.

Aurogha · **Joined:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:21 pm **Posts:** 12

nothing output, error on line.... sniff i cryyyyyyyyyyyyy....

$:-\$

Robin · **Joined:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:41 am **Posts:** 15098

Any "expert" on this? As I'm no true coder either?

Aurogha · **Joined:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:21 pm **Posts:** 12

there isn't any persons? heeeeeeeelp

Aurogha · **Joined:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:21 pm **Posts:** 12

Thx at all for all replies >:( >:( -.- -.-'

cuteangel · **Joined:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:15 am **Posts:** 9

Mind to ask, where did you put these piece of code?
*.php or *.html.php?

dam-man · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:29 am

On the top of the page start with:

For the user id:

Code:

global $my;

echo $my->id; 

OR

For the username:

Code:

global $my;

echo $my->username; 

I hope this works

dam-man · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:46 am

And if you want to echo a sentence:

Code:

echo "My username is ". $my->username;

What you're doing is PHP and HTML without any structure, this won't work mostly

mr-fusion · **Joined:** Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:12 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi. I've also been trying to do this but can't get it working. I want to use the joomla user name/password/id on a seperate non-joomla php page.

As a test

1. I login to joomla from the index.php
2. I go to be address bar and enter the location of the test php page to display the id
3. It doesn't work.

My tests php page has this

Code:

<?php 

global $my;
$my->id;


echo "$my->id";
?>

It outputs a blank page. But if i put echo "$my->id"; in a file mod_login.php it will display the id perfectly. What does the test page need to be able to grab this?

Thanks.

mr-fusion · **Joined:** Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:12 pm **Posts:** 2

Ok this seemed to make it work.

Code:

define( '_VALID_MOS', 1 );

include_once( 'globals.php' );
require_once( 'configuration.php' );
require_once( 'includes/joomla.php' );
$option="test";
$mainframe = new mosMainFrame( $database, $option, '.' );
$mainframe->initSession();

$my = $mainframe->getUser();

echo $my->username;

microprocessor · **Joined:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:49 am **Posts:** 1

put this code in your joomla folder (the parent folder) .

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?



define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__) );
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );

//JDEBUG ? $_PROFILER->mark( 'afterLoad' ) : null;

/**
 * CREATE THE APPLICATION
 *
 * NOTE :
 */
$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');



$user =& JFactory::getUser();

echo $user->username;

echo "<p>Your name is {$user->name}, your email is {$user->email}, and your username is {$user->username}</p>";
  echo "<p>Your usertype is {$user->usertype} which has a group id of {$user->gid}.</p>";
   
   ?>

</body>
</html>

log in as a member in joomla. open a new browser and run this code from the new browser. you may edit this code as you wish to suit your application/system/script.

i tried, and it was a success!

-- in this world, there are 10 kinds of people, the one who knows binary, and does not --

iii_carlos · **Joined:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:01 am **Posts:** 6

hi thanks for this post.

What about updating the Joomla session database? (jos_session)?
How can I update it so that from my application (outside of joomla) but the same domain., when the users switch back to my joomla site, he is still login.

considering that I have set session timeout to default which is 15 minutes.

can you help me with this?

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