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Oct 26.2011

Hi, all,

I’m having some trouble doing something with a zencart 1.3.9 site, although the scope of the problem is not specific or related to ZC’s software.

I won’t get into the exact specifics, but I am basically trying to set a variable from one php file (that is not part of ZC) so that it can be checked from html_header.php (where I’ve added code that needs this flag to work), which is a file included in all output by zencart.

The problem seems to be that my attempts to use a (new, unique) session variable for this ($_SESSION[‘blah’] = true) are interfering with ZC’s use of $_SESSION. The variable I’m creating is getting ‘cleaned’ and is no longer a member of $_SESSION by the time ZC’s index.php finishes loading.

So where can I put a global so that ZC will leave it alone? I think the application start module called from index.php cleans out $_SESSION, $_GET and $_POST. I need a way to pass a variable that is isolated.

TIA,
Fred

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@WonDer9Oct 28.2011 — I think cookie will be your best bet. I can't say I could give you the specifcis on how to write it. But basically it would be separate form the site itself. Unless ZC deletes them.

There are other options:

-saving to a file.

-saving to your database

-or including a file with defined variables
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@SyCoOct 28.2011 — You could write it to a file or database associated with a unique identifier.

But really you need to id where the value is getting unset and change it. They ought to have put all their session stuff in a unique key eg $_SESSION['zc']['blah'] so they could unset at the key level and not kill the whole session. A text editor with "find in files" ill help you locate how they utilize the session.
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