Read Cookie PHPSESSID in opencart:2.3.0.2

Question

I want to use an opencart database for another website, so users don't need to register their details again.

For example: I sell Clothes (unStitched) on opencart and I also give services for stitching them. Opencart doesn't have a module to do this, so I want to redirect users to another website and there I want to read the user details for further processing.

How can I read PHPSESSID cookie? How does opencart read firstname on edit profile forms?

<?php echo $firstname; ?>

Thanks in advance.

You would need to look at the controller for the page you're pasting the code from — Daniel, Jan 06 '20 at 15:54
can you explain little more like, where do PHPSESSID decode will be? — Anmol singh, Jan 06 '20 at 16:36
What do you mean by "read cookie"? Have you tried to check `$_COOKIE` and what's stored inside? — Nico Haase, Jan 07 '20 at 07:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '20 at 06:56

In order to work with the Session data in an Opencart view, you will need to add some code to the controller. First we need to add an item in the $data array that the controller uses to pass variables to the view:

Assuming you want to show this link in a product view, you will need to edit the product controller's index action.

Controller file: public_html\catalog\controller\product\product.php

Find this line:

if ($product_info) {

Add the text inside the brace:

    $data['mysessionvariable'] = $this->session;

You can restrict the available data to the sessionID only using the code below:

    $data['mysessionvariable'] = $this->session->getId();

Now the relevant PHP Session data is available to the view, you can simply reference the session variable in the view wherever your need to. e.g. echo $mysessionvariable['session_id']; or echo $mysessionvariable;

View file: public_html\catalog\view\theme\default\template\product\product.tpl

Read Cookie PHPSESSID in opencart:2.3.0.2

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