Pulling in Magento Session Information is buggy

Question

I am pulling in Magento session information on a custom page using this code structure:

require_once ( "../app/Mage.php" );
umask(0);
Mage::app("default");

Mage::getSingleton("core/session", array("name" => "frontend"));
$session = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session"); 
$test = array();
//print_r($session);

if($session->isLoggedIn()){
    Set some session variables
} //end session check

else {
    //They don't belong here.  Transfer them to a login page
    header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/customer/account/login/");
}

It works great most of the time, but from time to time it doesn't seem to pull in session information sometimes. My print_r looks like this:

Mage_Customer_Model_Session Object
(
    [_customer:protected] => 
    [_isCustomerIdChecked:protected] => 
    [_skipSessionIdFlag:protected] => 
    [_data:protected] => Array
        (
            [_session_validator_data] => Array
            (
                    [remote_addr] => an.ip.addr.ess
                    [http_via] => 
                    [http_x_forwarded_for] => 
                    [http_user_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
                )

        [session_hosts] => Array
            (
                [www.mydomain.com] => 1
            )

    )

[_origData:protected] => 
[_idFieldName:protected] => 
[_isDeleted:protected] => 
)

But if I leave the header:location tag on, it brings me to the account page because I am logged in.

Has anyone else experienced this? How do I avoid it? I'm stumped.

Mage::getSingleton("core/session", array("name" => "frontend")); remove this line — zed Blackbeard, Nov 19 '12 at 09:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '10 at 06:21

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I dont know why you are using header but try using this code

require_once ( "../app/Mage.php" );
umask(0);
Mage::app("default");

$session = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session"); 

if($session->isLoggedIn()){
   var_dump($session->getData());
}

answered Jul 19 '10 at 06:21

Kapil

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This is also not working in custom customer profile page.. if you know please help as soon as possible – zed Blackbeard Nov 19 '12 at 08:59

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 05 '12 at 07:50

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I had the same problem until I realized that I was starting a new session for my custom pages before pulling the Magento session information. When I reversed the process, it worked fine.

edited Nov 05 '12 at 07:50

Pete Carter

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answered Dec 04 '11 at 03:33

Haitham

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 21 '11 at 00:12

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I was having this same issue and then I changed Mage::app("default"); to simply Mage::app(); and it seems to work like a charm.

answered Apr 21 '11 at 00:12

todd

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

In my case, it turned out that the location of the file made a lot of difference. I basically tried out Kapil's code above, with the difference that I put my file in magento root.

I wanted to add my two bits of info; hopefully this might answer your question.

EDIT: I used code similar to Kapil. If your custom page is on a separate subdomain, then you might need your cookie domain set properly in Magento Admin (please read comments on this: How to access Magento customer's session from outside Magento?)

Pulling in Magento Session Information is buggy

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