By j_ten_man on

How can you use the current Session in a module? Also, how can you use cookies? I can't get $_SESSION or $_COOKIE to work...

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TapocoL’s picture

TapocoL commented

I haven't dealt with sessions in drupal, but it seems like sess_read would work

-Craig Jackson
-Web Developer

j_ten_man’s picture

j_ten_man commented

I am not quite sure how this works. How do I get values out of the session that I need. just like this: sess_read('foo') and sess_write('foo', 'bar')? This kills the session when I try doing this. I am confused how this works.

TapocoL’s picture

TapocoL commented

What about just using $_COOKIE[session_name()]?

-Craig Jackson
-Web Developer

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j_ten_man commented

Ok. I had some logic wrong in my page, so the sessions do work. $_SESSION['foo'] will work for both saving and retrieiving. Thanks for your help.

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TapocoL commented

EDIT: I guess you had edited your previous post. You can disregard this since it is now working for you.

I don't understand how you can't get the session. So, maybe I need more explanation on what you are doing. But, some problems that people have with cookies is

1.) When you set a cookie, it will not be available until the next page load. However, you can just set the array in the global $_COOKIE['your_cookie'] variable too, and then if you use $_COOKIE['your_cookie'] in the future it will have the stored info.
2.) Set your path to root '/' on the cookie to ensure you can receive it on all pages on the site.
3.) Not setting the cookies expiration will only store the cookie until the browser is closed.

-Craig Jackson
-Web Developer