[LRUG] [Off Topic] Extracting a user id from a Mambo session

[Tom Stuart]

Additionally, uselessly:

On 15 May 2008, at 15:32, Andrew Stewart wrote:
> My webapp will be hosted on a subdomain of the domain where the  
> Mambo site lives.

So you'll be in trouble unless the cookie's domain is explicitly set  
to permit access by all subdomains, i.e. ".ourdomain.com", because  
otherwise the browser won't trust your subdomain to read it. Hopefully  
Mambo will already be doing this but it's another thing to not take  
for granted.

> However since I've never touched Mambo or PHP before, I don't know  
> where to start looking for information on steps 1 and 2 above.

First step would be to crack open the cookies viewer in your browser  
and eyeball it for cookies from Mambo -- maybe you'll get lucky and  
find one that a) is accessible to all subdomains and b) contains the  
user ID in plaintext.

Cheers,
-Tom