PHP Sessions

I'm trying to set up a login system using php sessions.. this is my first time using modx and its being weird, it seems to carry sessions over to other computers..

If i login it takes me to a member page that displays a welcome message with this code:


But if i go to another computer and go to the member page its displays the same message with the same username as the one i logged in on a completely separate computer with a different IP.

Is there something different about MODx and sessions i should know?

For one thing, you can't have PHP code inline like that. All PHP code in MODx has to be in a snippet.

For another, if the member page is cached, then it will be cached with all of its content, in this case the login welcome message. You're not really logged in from another computer, it's just that you're getting the cached page from when you were.

Might be a good idea to have a quick look through the docs if it's your first time using MODX - will save you more than a few hours I'm sure

Basic Development - http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Basic+Development
Snippets - http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Snippets
Caching - http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Caching

Quote from: sottwell at Jan 06, 2012, 12:44 AM

For one thing, you can't have PHP code inline like that. All PHP code in MODx has to be in a snippet.

For another, if the member page is cached, then it will be cached with all of its content, in this case the login welcome message. You're not really logged in from another computer, it's just that you're getting the cached page from when you were.

ya that php code was in a snippet. is there a way to make the snippet / page not cached?

edit: I found the page cache check mark.

To have only the snippet's output not cached, for Evo use [!...!] and for Revo use [ [!...] ] in fact for Revo all elements can be uncached by adding the ! to the beginning tags.