Cannot save php session

By gosforth on 22 Nov 2015 at 19:46 UTC

I have simple test module with function:

<?php
function current_posts_user_login(&$edit, $account) {
  $_SESSION["something"] = "somevalue";
}

Looks like this piece of code runs when user log in but... session is empty. I do not want to play with Drupal session but want to save php session.

Comments

If you are really using

nevets commented 22 November 2015 at 20:41

If you are really using Drupal 4.7 it would not work, hook_user_login() is new in Drupal 7

Sorry

gosforth commented 22 November 2015 at 23:47

, this is 7.x drupal

How are you testing to see if

nevets commented 23 November 2015 at 01:33

How are you testing to see if the value is set or not?

I have Drupal test installation

gosforth commented 23 November 2015 at 21:53

on Xampp. I check it in both ways:

- see if there is something in xampp\tmp directory (where xampp stores sessions)
- print_r($_SESSION); or echo $_SESSION["something"]; in some test.php file

Both results gives nothing.
Possible Drupal stores session in another place?

Drupal stores sessions in the

Jaypan commented 23 November 2015 at 23:00

Drupal stores sessions in the {sessions} table of the database, not as a file.

And calling the Drupal session outside of Drupal will not find the Drupal session.

Thanks for explanation

gosforth commented 24 November 2015 at 14:41

Hmm... complex interface for trivial thing. I hope it has some sense...
I see session is kept in 'session' field of session table. How to read it outside drupal (avoiding building sql interface and parser)?

this is the solution:

gosforth commented 24 November 2015 at 16:47

<?php
define('DRUPAL_ROOT', 'D:\\xampp\\htdocs\\drupal');
$base_url = 'http://127.0.0.1/drupal'; // THIS IS IMPORTANT
require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
global $user;

//echo $user->uid;

echo "<pre>";

print_r($user);

Object 'session' has all logged in user sessions separated by ';'

Works but I do not like it at all - Drupal should just keep sessions as php keeps them.

Drupal's sessions are more

Jaypan commented 25 November 2015 at 00:55

Drupal's sessions are more secure, and easier to operate on within the Drupal environment.

You're trying to do stuff outside Drupal - that's where your issues are coming from. It's better to build stuff within Drupal than it is to build external stuff calling Drupal.

It's safe to use the Drupal

Jaypan commented 23 November 2015 at 02:14

It's safe to use the Drupal session, however you should add a prefix to it for namespacing purposes. I usually use the module name:

$_SESSION['mymodule']['somekey'] = 'some value';

This will be available in other parts of your code.

I think Drupal

gosforth commented 23 November 2015 at 22:28

...does some magical tricks with sessions for some reason in modules and that is why PHP syntax to create session $_SESSION['session'] = "value" will never work.
Tried everything. Save path is correct, is writable, any other script in same directory save session but not Drupal module.