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Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:49 am
by ctellier
Hi I have a question. I would like my homepage (not my store index.php) to be able to recognize if a customer is logged in. How would I do this? I know it has somthing to do with sessions and or cookies, but I just dont know how to go about it.
site is set up like this:
Homepage: /index.php
Store: /store/index.php
Thanks
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:21 pm
by ctellier
Bump.
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:58 pm
by Qphoria
It uses the php session to store the customer logged in data.
Try the session_start() command on your homepage index.php and i believe it carries over
See the example here:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php
If logged in, there is a session variable called customer_id
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session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['customer_id'])) {
echo "Customer is logged in";
}
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:03 am
by ctellier
Thanks, works great
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:38 am
by Qphoria
really? wow i hadn't even tested it.. i was going on theory! lol Good to know
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:05 pm
by ctellier
Yup, but now I need to figure out how to echo or print the firstname? I have it set up like this...
In my main sites header.php i have this
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<?php
if (isset($_SESSION['customer_id'])) {
include_once "logged.php";
}
else {
include_once "notlogged.php";
}
?>
Now if a customer is NOT logged in the notlogged.php shows the email and password inputs. which works fine.
My problem is this, I want to echo the customers name in the logged.php. I tried this but nothing...
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<?php echo $this->data['firstname'];?>
I also tried this :
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<?php echo "Welcome $firstname";?>
only welcome shows up..
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:45 pm
by Qphoria
Well thats all class stuff loaded from the index.php of the cart. You'd basically need to add session variables to the login process to store all these extra stuff you want to access outside of the store, as that is your common variable base between the two.
EDIT: system/helper/customer.php
FIND:
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$this->session->data['customer_id'] = $customer_query->row['customer_id'];
AFTER, ADD:
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$this->session->data['firstname'] = $customer_query->row['firstname'];
Do the same for any other variables you want to work with. You can see a list of all the available data in that same code area
Then in that same file,
FIND:
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unset($this->session->data['customer_id']);
AFTER, ADD:
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unset($this->session->data['firstname']);
And any other variables you added
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:38 am
by ctellier
Ok this is how I did the echo
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<span class="dark2">Welcome Back <?php echo ($_SESSION['firstname']);?>!</span>
And it works. Is that the right way to do it?
Thanks alot!
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:15 pm
by Qphoria
Well, if they aren't logged in it might give an error since the variable won't be set. This would be best:
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<span class="dark2">Welcome Back <?php echo (isset($_SESSION['firstname'])) ? $_SESSION['firstname'] : '' ?>!</span>
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:46 am
by ctellier
Remember i had this:
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<?php
if (isset($_SESSION['customer_id'])) {
include_once "logged.php";
}
else {
include_once "notlogged.php";
}
?>
so if they are not logged it wont even run
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<span class="dark2">Welcome Back <?php echo ($_SESSION['firstname']);?>!</span>
so is that ok? or should i still change the logged.php to what you put?
Re: Sessions..cookies.. help
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:26 pm
by Qphoria
Yea thats fine