Accessing user login & session info from outside zencart

[MAV]

I am trying to make it possible for pages on my site that aren't in my zencart system to be able to access Zencart session information.

For example, my Zencart store is at MYURL/store. I would like to be able to have my MYURL/index.php (or some other file in another directory) to say something like "Logged in as USERNAME", if the user is logged into the store. Also i will want to use the zen_href_link and other such functions.

including 'application_top.php' in a file that is not in the zencart directory leads to the expected path errors. so i created outside.php in the zencart root directory, which just reads to see if someone is logged in:

<?php
    $curdir = getcwd();
    if (chdir(dirname(__FILE__))) {
		require('includes/application_top.php');
		if (isset($_SESSION) && isset($_SESSION['customer_id'])) {
			?>
			Logged in as <?= zen_output_string_protected($_SESSION['customer_first_name']); ?><br>
			<a href="<?= zen_href_link(FILENAME_LOGOFF, '', 'SSL'); ?>">Log Off</a>
			<a href="<?= zen_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', 'SSL'); ?>">Account Manager</a>
			<?php
		} else {
			?>
			Not logged in<br>
			<a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_LOGIN, '', 'SSL'); ?>">Log In</a>
			<?php
		}
		chdir($curdir);
	}
?>

opening this file in a browser works as expected. however, if i try to require that file from outside the zencart directory, i get this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in includes\classes\db\mysql\query_factory.php on line 103

obviously i don't want to go changing things in the zencart core stuff, since this error is just because i am doing something outside the lines.

is there an easier way to access this login info? maybe instead of loading application_top.php, would loading one of the sub-pages work?

[stehodges]

Any progress on this?

I succeeded in doing this for 1.2.6 Zen Cart, but things seem to have changed quite a bit in 1.3.

All i did previously was take the relevant parts of application_top.php i needed to access from outside the zen directory and create another php file - as MAV describes above.
These carried the session etc and allowed me to use the login session to provide my account links, or if there was no session, to provide a login link which redirected back to whichever static page was used once logged in.

Cant achieve this on 1.3 so far. Any tips?

[stehodges]

anyone help on this?

[tingsryd]

How do you find the variables such as "first name" to include in this script?

E.g. $_SESSION['customer_first_name']

I want to include street address and city as well...

[mypashop]

in my case i have the same need, and have similar problems.

for the payment process to complete
the response is stored and the customer redirected

however, When the gateway sends back success/fail messages,

the payment process doesn´t continue,
instead sends the gateway to a session expired page.


requiring / including application top results in errors in my case as well.

[scanf]

I am trying to make it possible for pages on my site that aren't in my zencart system to be able to access Zencart session information.

I am looking for the same answer. This is getting to be a real pain in the back side for something that should be so simple.

[SLOj]

The session cookie is zenid
if you store the session in the db then you can query for the session sesskey = '$_COOKIE['zenid']'

You then need to unserialize the value.

Totally enabled us to create a single sign on solution for site.