Question

In my different script (not using Codeigniter on this, but its on the same domain) I’m setting my session data this way:

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['something'] = 'test';

How comes it does works in that separated file but it doesn’t in the Codeigniter session?

When I’ll var_dump( $this->session->all_userdata() ); in any Codeigniter controller it doesn’t show my 'something' session data.

Whats wrong? Can it be done this way?

Answer 1

Codeigniter manages its own sessions, and has a few different storage methods ( it doesn’t necessarily use php’s native session storage as a backend).

You should still be able to access your something variable in codeigniter by doing

session_start();
var_dump($_SESSION);

If you’re not worried about modifying the CI core, you can modify the session library to pull in data from $_SESSION.

A cleaner solution would be to write a hook that merges the native CI sessions with the default PHP $_SESSION superglobal.