Access cakephp session (auth) from outside cakephp

Question

I have a CakePHP website with its own login system using the Auth component. I would like to know if the following is possible:

A user has logged in and is navigatin

Answer 1

Yes you can access the cakephp SESSION outside cakephp folder. try this session variable

$_SESSION['Auth']

if it exists then check for user here

$_SESSION['Auth']['User']

Answer 2

This is not working in Cakephp3. After calling

session_name("CAKEPHP");
session_start();

Application session is expiring.

Answer 3

I'll add you also need to set session name to "CAKEPHP" using

session_name('CAKEPHP')

just before your external app session_start() otherwise you could not apply Kashif Khan suggested solution :)

Cheers,