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

[Paul Ardeleanu]

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Stewart <boss at airbladesoftware.com>
wrote:

> Hello El Rug,
>
> Oh, the horror.
>
> ...
>
> I'm thinking the only way to do this is to:
>
> 1.  Grab the cookie which (I assume) Mambo sets when you log in.


It is PHP what sets a cookie containing the session_id which, usually, maps
to a temporary file that holds the session content/variables.


>
> 2.  Extract the user's id from it.
>
> Once I've got the user's id, everything's simple because the two apps share
> the same database.


It wil be probably easier to use db based PHP sessions but there is a
performance hit there:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/03/27/php-sessions-files-vs-database-based/

or pass the session_id to your Rails app.

Paul
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