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Accessing MODX Rev logged user externally

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    eclipseTalk Reply #1, 12 years, 3 months ago
    Hi,
    Would this code work if I want to access the current user logged into Modx via an external script?
    require_once '/absolute/path/to/modx/config.core.php';
require_once MODX_CORE_PATH.'model/modx/modx.class.php';
$modx = new modX();
$modx->initialize('web');
$modx->getService('error','error.modError');

$user = $modx->user->get('username');


    Thanks for your help. [ed. note: eclipseTalk last edited this post 12 years, 3 months ago.]
    • opengeek Reply #2, 12 years, 3 months ago
      Not if that external script uses sessions. MODX requires the use of sessions and using it in an external application will only work if that app does not require sessions of it's own.
        Jason Coward
        Chief Architect @ MODX
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        eclipseTalk Reply #3, 12 years, 3 months ago
        Thanks for replying.
        I need to get the username in an external IPN php page sent from Paypal to do some custom code processing when a user has made a purchase. I'm not using sessions and I was hoping but using the snippet above to get access to the user running in the current Modx session.
        So it seems that I should be fine. Correct?
        Thanks for your time.
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          BobRay Reply #4, 12 years, 3 months ago
          What if more than one user is logged in at the time? It seems your code would have no way of knowing which session to access.

          Could you possibly get the info you need from the PayPal API?

          If only one user could be logged in, you could put a snippet on one of the pages that writes the username to a file, then your external PHP script could just read that file.


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