Detecting that user is logged in

[osborne]

When put in a file in my ojs directory, the following code detects whether a user is logged in:

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require('includes/driver.inc.php');
initSystem();
$isUserLoggedIn = Validation::isLoggedIn();


So far, so good. But I'd like a file outside the ojs directory to be able to detect whether a user is logged in; I can't find a way of doing so. I'm guessing that it's either trivial or impossible (and that if I understood how the PHP session system worked I'd know the answer!). Is it possible?

[asmecher]

Hi Martin,

In addition to bringing in the required PHP includes, you'll need to modify the OJS cookie's base path -- see classes/session/SessionManager.inc.php, line 40. To make the cookie server-wide, change:

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ini_set('session.cookie_path', Request::getBasePath() . '/');

to

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ini_set('session.cookie_path', '/');

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[osborne]

Many thanks---it was really bugging me that I couldn't figure out how to do it.