how to get $_SESSION value in cakephp

Question

I am setting up a user session from a core php app that is located in example.com/corephp/, now I want to redirect this user to example.com (the main site) which is in cakephp.

How can I retain the user session from the core php app to cakephp app?

I triend setting $_SESSION['user'] = someone and $_SESSION['token'] = token from core php app and tried to retrieve that value from cakephp but it didn't work.

I tried to google for this but no proper answer that could work.

Thanks in advance.

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I have tried adding session_name('CAKEPHP'); to the core php app. As well as tried to reduce the security level of my cake app from medium to low.

Answer 1

Didn't test, but try this.

In your corephp app:

$_SESSION['Auth']['User'] = $someone;

My reasoning is that it will set the $_SESSION, but maybe CakePHP doesn't recognize it for some reason. So we set it the right way using Cake's API:

In CakePHP

$this->Session->write('Auth.User', $_SESSION['Auth']['User']);