By OliW on

I'm trying to access the drupal sessions from an external php file (still on the same server -- just not a drupal page).

In there I've got (As has been suggested by IRC):

require_once("./includes/bootstrap.inc"); 
require_once("./includes/common.inc"); 
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_SESSIONS);

And although they don't produce any errors when executing, the $_SESSION array remains empty on the external page when I try to access it.

Has anyone done this before or know an extisting script that does this so I can go code-thieving?

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markus_petrux’s picture

markus_petrux commented

Strange, that code snippet looks good.

By "same server" do you mean "same exact domain"? ...or is from different subdomains?

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OliW commented

Yes, "same exact domain". Its just a file in the root dir of the same site. Drupal is installed in the root dir too.

Oli Warner
KittenAuth.com

markus_petrux’s picture

markus_petrux commented

Try this:

require_once("./includes/bootstrap.inc");
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_SESSION); // typo was here ;-)

echo '';
var_dump($_SESSION);
echo '';

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OliW commented

If you were here and we were both "that way" i would be sexing you up so hard right now...

Fantastic catch! Working like a charm now! Damn its been a long 6 hours to get that done =)

Oli Warner
KittenAuth.com

Edit: is there anything I need to do to "close" the thread or do they just sink away and get archived?

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markus_petrux commented

AFAIK, forum posts aren't closed like project issues.

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chx commented

I suggested this to you and have not mentioned common.inc . That's not needed for sure.
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OliW commented

Sorry that's something I picked up from the integration handbook thingy...
Doesn't affect the outcome of the test though =( Still fails without common being inc'd

I'll try it on another install (this time with 4.6 --maybe) with another script, just to make sure what I'm getting isn't the result of my incompetance.

Oli Warner
KittenAuth.com

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amit123 commented

can u provide me complete code snippets for this also i would like to access drupal database from external file how could i do that

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drupalfantwo commented

what should i put?

for example:
httpdocs/sub1/sub2/bootstraptest.php

I tried doing this

require_once("../../includes/bootstrap.inc");

Then it gave me this error
Warning: conf_init(./sites/default/settings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 243

Warning: conf_init(): Failed opening './sites/default/settings.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:') in /var/www/vhosts/V/httpdocs/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 243

Warning: _drupal_cache_init(./includes/cache.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 893

Fatal error: _drupal_cache_init(): Failed opening required './includes/cache.inc' (include_path='.:') in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 893

any insight would be appreciated :)

Thanks :D

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geertv commented 

    $currdir=getcwd();
    chdir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
    require_once("./includes/bootstrap.inc");
    drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_SESSION);
    chdir($currdir);

// rest of your code...