Question

I have a username variable from WordPress, by including wp-config.php. If I use on my index page, I can run following and all is ok.

echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";

also I can call echo $_SESSION['username']; which both output the username.

I have an extended class that I am trying to pass this variable into. And I cannot seem to get it to work.

class elFinderVolumeMySQL extends elFinderVolumeDriver {

Does anyone please know how to do this. I have tried absolutely everything, but I am new to php and not well up on constructors extended classes and whether I am doing something really wrong here, which may cause me problems.

Any advice greatly apreciated.

ie I need to add to this to get all ids where equal to username.

protected function _scandir($id) {
        $files = array();
        $sql   = 'SELECT f.id, f.parent_id, f.name, f.size, f.mtime, f.mime, f.width, f.height, ch.id AS dirs 
                FROM '.$this->tbf.' AS f 
                LEFT JOIN '.$this->tbf.' AS ch ON ch.parent_id=f.id 
                WHERE f.parent_id="'.$id.'"
                GROUP BY f.id';

        if ($res = $this->query($sql)) {
            while ($r = $res->fetch_assoc()) {
                $id = $r['id'];

                $this->stat($id, false, $r);
                $files[] = $id;
            }
        }

        return $files;
    }

Answer 1

$_SESSION is global by nature and is available across the script if following conditions are met:

1. You are using session_start()
2. You are not destroying sessions anywhere before trying to access them

Thus, if you are not able to access the value using $_SESSION[‘username’], then do check for the two conditions shared above. You can also check the destroying of session by creating a test variable under sessions and see if its value is available or not.

Hope this helps.