How do I save value in my own session variable in Magento?

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I am using Magento and trying to save a value in the session as follows in its index.php file, but the value is not being retained.

$_SESSION['myvar'] = '1';

How do I do it?

Thanks

I had the same issue when using `setcookie()` directly, as the `core/cookie` model handles setting those, and found it was overwriting my values. — DWils, Feb 26 '14 at 22:10

Hervé Guétin · Answer 1 · 2010-07-28T07:15:09.667

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Let's say you want to save the value "Hello world" to the "welcome message" variable in the session. The code would be :

$inputMessage = 'Hello World';
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setWelcomeMessage($inputMessage);

Now you want to echo the "welcome message" somewhere else in your code/site.

$outputMessage = Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getWelcomeMessage();
echo $this->__($outputMessage);

edited Jul 28 '10 at 07:15

answered Jul 27 '10 at 07:46

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Worth mentioning how to clear (unset) a session variable: Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->unsWelcomeMessage(); The "uns" stands for unset. – Ira Herman May 10 '13 at 00:05
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I know it was 5 years ago, but THANK YOU! – Paradoxetion Jan 27 '16 at 23:51

score 37 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '11 at 13:12

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Following the example given by Ali Nasrullah, I would do:

$session = Mage::getSingleton("core/session",  array("name"=>"frontend"));
// set data
$session->setData("device_id", 4);
// get data
$myDeviceId = $session->getData("device_id");

Make sure you include [Mage-root]/app/Mage.php befor calling the code above!

@Ali Nasrullah: Pass the value of device:id as second parameter of the setData function.

answered Jan 27 '11 at 13:12

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I tried the above but couldn't get it to work. How to call /app/Mage.php. By default, index.php includes: require_once $mageFilename; Is that enough? – Remy Nagelmaeker May 06 '13 at 12:06

score 13 · Answer 3 · edited May 27 '16 at 17:07

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  Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setMySessionVariable('MyValue'); 

  $myValue  =  Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getMySessionVariable();

  echo $myValue;

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Here are code to Get, Set, and Unset Session in Magento

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answered Nov 01 '13 at 19:08

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score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 26 '13 at 02:36

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frontend: Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setYourNameSession($session_value);

backend: Mage::getSingleton('admin/session')->setYourNameSession($session_value);

answered Jul 26 '13 at 02:36

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How do I save value in my own session variable in Magento?

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