How to access Magento user's session from outside Magento?

Question

Im trying to access the Magento customer session in another part of my website.

domain.com/shop/ <- Magento
domain.com/test.php

The shop

Answer 1

I would recommend checking the path of the cookie that Magento sets. Most likely, it is set to /shop, so the cookie will not be accessible to your file above it.

You can modify the path that Magento uses to set its cookie in the control panel under System -> Configuration -> Web (under the General heading) -> Session cookie management

Answer 2

it is under confuguration-> web on Magento ver. 1.10.1.1

Answer 3

The same issue was driving me mad. I worked through the following until the last item solved it:

• Has the correct Mage store ID (current store) been set?
• Are you using the same session path as Magento?
• Are you using the same (sub)domain for cookie purposes?
• Are you using HTTP or HTTPS both inside and outside Magento?

If you've checked all the above, make sure you initialize a core "frontend" session on its own first like this:

// Initialise the core "frontend" session
Mage::getModel('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));

Then you can access the customer/session like this:

$customer = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session", array('name' => 'frontend'))->getCustomer();