Hello,

I just want to say a big thank you as I have been stuck with sessions in EE for quite a time. Your plugin was very helpful to me, thank you !

However, I just noted a small addition you might consider for your plugin: it could be good to be able to parse in a loop all session variables that have been entered, like a foreach loop in php.
Other than that it's perfect !

I found small "bugs" however:
- the help you give in the plugin panel of EE is misleading; it tells to use {exp:session:delete name="language"} but the real syntax would be the one you gave in this post, that is session_variables instead of session !
- your plugin starts a php session even if it is already started; I've searched the php doc, and it says that the test if (session_id() == "") is not good to know whether a session exists or not.
In fact I found no solution for this, so I removed the block of your plugin that tests the existence of the session and put at the very top of my EE header a simple (with php on of course).
This is perhaps not the cleanest solution but it always works.

Regards

Hi Ben

Thanks for the plugin - it looks great and has got me pretty excited! I'm just wondering how I would use this if I wanted to allow a user to click a link to set a session variable. Is this possible?

Cheers

Jim

Hey, cool plugin. I'm not using it at the moment, but I stumbled across it looking for a solution to another issue.

You can probably do this as a better session check:


if(isset($_SESSION))
{

}


I keep getting:

Session Plugin: name and value parameters must be entered

Help. What am I doing wrong?

I'm having a heck of a time setting a session variable from a posted variable. Why is it that the session variable is always POSTED_VALUE? Is that an example?

hi ben,

do you think this plugin could be used to pass a logged in members ID and login status to another non-EE on-line app hosted on a sub-domain of the main EE domain?

Should this work for accessing the session variable in a non-EE PHP app?

if(isset($_SESSION['language'])){
$language = $_SESSION['language'];
} else {
$language = 'no language';
}

I'm using your example to set a variable in EE, then trying to access it in CodeIgniter, and my code isn't working. Maybe it's an issue with CodeIgniter's sessions.

I did use this plugin to solve another EE issue, so thanks!

Hi. I can't get this to work within a {exp:weblog:entries} tag. I can write the value of the variable outside of the tag but once I put it inline it doesn't output. Here's my code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="capability-category-overview" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" sort="desc" category="{exp:session_variables:get name="prevCat"}&{category_id}"}

Ben, thanks. That worked perfectly. I ran into another issue using your plugin which I'll probably post on the EE forums as you suggested. Here it is: Why can't I use your plugin to assign a value to an EE user-defined variable like so:

{assign_variable:my_testvariable="{exp:session_variables:get name="sessCapabilityCategoryID"}"}

I guess I'm finding hard to understand how your plugin could be used within EE tags if parse="inward" is not an option. I see your plugins use in writing to the document but that just seems so limited. Is it a restriction EE is placing?

And in case you're wondering why I'd want to assign the session variable to an EE user-defined variable, well because I know for sure that an EE variable would work where your code wouldn't.

I appreciate your insight.

I'm setting a PHP session variable in a plugin (where I have session_start();). In the EE template that calls this plugin I can access the PHP session variable using this cool plugin! However, if a navigate to another template in EE (that does NOT contain "my" plugin that creates the PHP session variable), I can't access the PHP session variable with the same code that works on the first page?!

I'm thinking that if I set a PHP session variable in a plugin one one EE page/template, then I should be able to access that same session variable on other EE pages/templates??

Thanks,
JM

Your documentation with the plugin is wrong. I copy/pasted it and it was broken.

Bad code:

{exp:session:set name="my_name" value="my_val"}

Please update it so that others don't get bitten by this. Thanks for the plugin, though. ;)

Works great but for one issue: if i reload the page and try to set new values in the session variables they don't take. i tried using the delete function first, but still nothing.