Customer session variable

[4ecomm]

Hi
I'm fairly new to Zen and have inherited a system that needs to be changed.
Can I get access to the customer id from (say) the session variables on the shopping cart page ?
I need to amend the contents of the cart depending on the customer and the products in the cart.
Thanks
4ec

[Ajeh]

You could just use:
$_SESSION['customer_id']

which is set when the customer logs in ...

[4ecomm]

Hi
yes, thanks for that. I've tried writing a test page to display this once I've logged on but it seems to be blank.
Is there a collection of session variables that I could maybe loop through to see if I'm getting any at all ?
Or do I need to include some other piece of logic to grab the session variables before trying to display them ?
Thanks again.
4ec

[Ajeh]

If you were to add this to your file: tpl_header.php

echo 'I SEE ' . $_SESSION['customer_id']; 

in the /common directory you would see nothing when not logged in and the customers_id when you are logged in ...

[4ecomm]

Great - many thanks.
It took me a while to figure out that I was using the wrong tpl_header file - but I'm onto it now.
Many thanks.

4ec