My idea for accessing zen cart sessions outside of zen...

[glenelkins]

well in the login code it sets $_SESSION

but if you try accessing one of the var from a script outside the folder zen cart runs in, it does work. Its strange, every application iv ever written i can access my session vars in any folder i wish from any script file i wish

[CJPinder]

well in the login code it sets $_SESSION

but if you try accessing one of the var from a script outside the folder zen cart runs in, it does work. Its strange, every application iv ever written i can access my session vars in any folder i wish from any script file i wish

Zen Cart uses a custom session handler to store its session data. You cannot access the session data from $_SESSION until the data has been reloaded by the session handler. You'll need to read up on session_set_save_handler() and review the code in includes/functions/sessions.php .

Regards,
Christian.

[glenelkins]

The _sess_read() function has a value $key that it uses. What is this? And im not sure how this parses the $key value if you look here:

session_set_save_handler('_sess_open', '_sess_close', '_sess_read', '_sess_write', '_sess_destroy', '_sess_gc');


Where in this line does it parse data to the _sess_read function?