Question

I have developed a website in php-zend with SQL server 2008r2 in which we can create requests. I am building an add-in for Outlook in asp.net with C# to create a request directly from email also.

But at the time of request creation from Outlook, I want to know whether that person is already logged into the website or not. If not then he needs to log into the website first, then only he can create a request from Outlook.

So basically I want to synchronize my website and the Outlook add-in application. I searched for active directory also, but could not get any idea how to achieve that.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Mausami

Answer 1

It’s not really designed to do this. You would need to look up the phpsessid value in the cookie set for your website on the local computer.

That’s basically impossible because,

• Every browser and OS store cookies differently, checking all the major browser cookie stores would be cumbersome and slow
• If the browser is open when you’re add in runs, the cookies will probably have an exclusive lock on them
• Private browsing does not save cookie values to disk

Use authentication within you’re plugin instead.