[TYPO3-dev] Typo3 Non-User Sessions

[Francois Suter]

Hi,

> I was wondering if there is a Typo3 way to save and retrieve sessions 
> for a non-logged in user, or should I just use PHP $_SESSSION for this?

Yes, there is :-)

The way to store in session is:

$GLOBALS['TSFE']->fe_user->setKey('ses', $key, $stuff);

The first parameter indicates whether the stuff is to be stored in the 
transient part of the session, i.e. the part that's not saved. If you 
set the parameter to 'user' instead, the stuff will be saved to the 
corresponding fe_user record when the page is more or less finished 
rendering.

The second parameter is the key used to store and retrieve your stuff. 
Finally, the third parameter is the structure you want to store. It can 
be any type of PHP data.

To get the stuff back from the session:

$GLOBALS['TSFE']->fe_user->getKey('ses', $key);

HTH

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch