How to access Magento user's session from outside Magento?

Question

Im trying to access the Magento customer session in another part of my website.

domain.com/shop/ <- Magento
domain.com/test.php

The shop itself works like a charm, however im trying to determine within test.php if a customer is logged in, so I can display his name with a link to his cart.

Contents of test.php so far:

<?php
require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/shop/app/Mage.php';
umask(0);
Mage::app('default');
Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));
var_dump(Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn());
?>

I keep getting bool(false) returned. I'm logged into Magento at domain.com/shop/ so ‘true’ is expected.

Am I forgetting something?

Solution

I would recommend checking the path of the cookie that Magento sets. Most likely, it is set to /shop, so the cookie will not be accessible to your file above it.

You can modify the path that Magento uses to set its cookie in the control panel under System -> Configuration -> Web (under the General heading) -> Session cookie management

Comments

[Shakti Singh]

Why this is not working with joomla I tested it in separate page where it is working but not working with joomla always returns bool(false)

[Benubird]

@Positive because this MAGENTO question is about MAGENTO, not joomla.

[Paul Allsopp]

You may want to create your own session model class as part of a custom module. That way you can store on it whatever you need, then in the other part of your website, instantiate the mage::app object and pull your session model data. Send me a message if you want more info on this