How to check if logged into manager?

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Eminos Reply #1, 13 years ago

Hi,

I'm trying to give access to some contexts based on whether the visitor is logged into the manager. Using my custom context switcher plugin.

I have tried $modx->user->get('username') but that returns (anonymous) even when the user is logged into the manager.
$modx->user->hasSessionContext($modx->context->get('mgr')) doesn't return anything.
$_SESSION['mgrValidated'] doesn't return anything.

I'm using MODX 2.1.2.

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sottwell Reply #2, 13 years ago

That would be

$modx->user->hasSessionContext('mgr');

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Eminos Reply #3, 13 years ago

if ($modx->user->hasSessionContext('mgr')) {
     $modx->log(modX::LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, '[has session context mgr TRUE] ');
}

doesn't work.

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Eminos Reply #4, 13 years ago

Also I should say, it's a plugin executing OnHandleRequest. If that matters.

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opengeek Reply #5, 13 years ago

I just tested this OnHandleRequest in 2.2.9 and it is working flawlessly, logging that my user does indeed have that session context.

<?php
$modx->log(modX::LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, "User has session context for mgr: " . ($modx->user->hasSessionContext('mgr')));

Does your manager and your front-end context you are testing this from share the exact same domain? Could you be visiting the www URL for the front-end and non-www URL for the manager? Or vice versa? If so, those requests would have different sessions, and that could explain your issue.

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Eminos Reply #6, 13 years ago

Quote from: opengeek at Oct 05, 2013, 09:19 AM

Does your manager and your front-end context you are testing this from share the exact same domain? (...) If so, those requests would have different sessions, and that could explain your issue.

Spot on. Totally different domains.
Is there a solution for this?
I guess I could just log into the manager from that other domain. I will try that.
Thank you.

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jpdevries Reply #7, 13 years ago

This sounds somewhat related to reports that QuickBar, which uses hasSessionContent, is always displaying in 2.2.9
https://forums.modx.com/thread/87029/quickbar-always-shows-in-2-2-9

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BobRay Reply #8, 13 years ago

If you want to check for logged-in status in the current context, you want:

if ($modx->user->hasSessionContext($modx->context->get('key'))) {
    /* user is logged in */
}

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opengeek Reply #9, 13 years ago

This is a problem anytime your manager session is on a different domain than your front-end web site( s ). There is simply no way to share those sessions. If it was a subdomain, you could solve it by changing the session_cookie_domain to allow all subdomains by prefixing the main domain with a period, e.g.

.domain.tld

You need a way, from the domain of the front-end site you need access to, to log the user into the mgr Context.

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