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hello,
  i'm doing  little investigation on why jd_wordpress and joomla aren't playing nice together.  It seems as though I can't get the username and ID from joomla.

using joomla 1.0.10
here's the relevant code:

if (!defined('ABSPATH')) {
define( '_VALID_MOS', 1 );

include_once( '../../../globals.php' );
require_once( '../../../configuration.php' );
require_once( '../../../includes/joomla.php' );

global $mosConfig_absolute_path, $mosConfig_live_site, $database;

$mainframe = new mosMainFrame( $database, isset($option), '.' );
$mainframe->initSession();
        $my = $mainframe->getUser();

the above looks like it should work, but whenever i echo $my->Id; i get zero (0).  However, I know the ID of the logged in user is 62 (i'm logging in as admin).

  any ideas on why this isn't working?

i've also posted about this on the wordpress support forums (for reference).
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/7833 ... ost-405510

A million thanks.  Right now i rigged wp with the id of the admin user in order to be able to use it.  Any help would be appreciated.

Yes, you need to put $my in the global statement...

global $mosConfig_absolute_path, $mosConfig_live_site, $database, $my;
$userid = $my->id;

tried that.  i'm still getting the same issue.

Did you put the code in a Joomla module/component or in jd_wordpress?
What I wrote only works in Joomla...

ah, i put it in the jd_wordprss admin.php.  I should put it in the file you mentioned?

let me try that.

here's what i did.

i put my in the global line of the admin.php file in components/com_jd-wp/wp-admin.

should i be doing something different?  I know this is a noob question, i'm a bit new to joomla

do you mean i need to edit the mod_components.php file? in administrator/modules?

I meant: when I write a module or component for Joomla, the method I wrote about works to get the id of the registered user that is logged in.

Did you take a look at http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... /cat_id,0/ for any jd_wordpress components/modules that function from within Joomla?
(I don't know jd_wordpress, but maybe you can use the extensions, or take a look at them how they work).

you're right, it should work.  I wonder why i'm always getting zero for the ID though.  It just doesn't make sense.

by the way, i'm using predator's jd_wordpress not the extension you mentioned (it is designed to share the joomla user DB).  Either way, it's strange that i can't get the id of the currently logged in user.  Any ideas ?

is it possible the initSession(); below is creating an entirely new session?  Do you have some sample code of how to get the current user? 
do you just globalize the $my and the just get the id using $my->id ?

Thanks


if (!defined('ABSPATH')) {
define( '_VALID_MOS', 1 );

include_once( '../../../globals.php' );
require_once( '../../../configuration.php' );
require_once( '../../../includes/joomla.php' );

global $mosConfig_absolute_path, $mosConfig_live_site, $database, $my;

$mainframe = new mosMainFrame( $database, isset($option), '.' );
$mainframe->initSession();
    $my = $mainframe->getUser();

i've been on this all day and nothing so far. it's almost as if the session is being rest.  $my is just plain old empty.

any thoughts by anyone ??

You could insert some code to return the values of your variables.

global $mosConfig_absolute_path, $mosConfig_live_site, $database, $my;
print"

";
print_r([color=red]$array_variable_you_want_to_echo_to_screen);
print"

";
die($query);
[/color]$mainframe = new mosMainFrame( $database, isset($option), '.' );

and then instead of $array_variable_you_want_to_echo_to_screen, use $mosConfig_absolute_path, $mosConfig_live_site, $database and $my to show if those contain any values.

thanks for staying with me on this.  I finally figued out the problem.  the issue was with $mosConfig_live_site
it was set to buffnerd.com not http://www.buffnerd.com. 

Now i have no idea why it solved the problem, but once i changed it the problem was fixed.  It took me a while of echoing variables, but finally i got it.

i wonder why that would have caused the problem though (not being an expert on joomla, but having worked with sessions in other languages) it would seem that even if the live site variable was wrong the session should still have been found.  I mean if i store a session for apple and i look for apple it should still be stored under the correct name.

well, all is well now.  thanks again!

Good to see that you've solved your problem!
Interesting question!
A search on this forum for "mosConfig_live_site session" returned some message that shows the code:
session_name( md5( $mosConfig_live_site ) );

Which indicates that the session name is related to (an MD5 Hashed) $mosConfig_live_site.