Using sessions for non-logged-in users

[aportale]

Hi,

I am searching for a CMS that is easy to use for me (CMS N00b developer) and the later content editors. CMSms looks like a hot candidate. I need to know one thing:

Is there a PHP-session management in CMSms that also works as long the website visitor is not logged in?

I intend to use my own PHP code through user-defined tags. That PHP code needs to write and read session data, also if the website visitor is not logged in.
As far as I understood, I cannot initiate the PHP session management after some data was already sent to the browser. So I will not be able to initiate it from within a user-defined tag which will be embedded in the middle of a page.

The CMSms docs don't mention sessions anywhere. If such a feature is available, it is probably just not (yet) documented?

Thanks in advance,
Alessandro

[Ted]

Well, with 0.11, sessions are only made if you're logging into the admin or if CMSSESSID is in the GET parameters.

However, if you look at the top of incude.php, you'll see:

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#if(!@session_id()) {
if(!@session_id() && (isset($_REQUEST[session_name()]) || isset($CMS_ADMIN_PAGE))) {

If you want sessions all the time, change it to:

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if(!@session_id()) {
#if(!@session_id() && (isset($_REQUEST[session_name()]) || isset($CMS_ADMIN_PAGE))) {

Then you should be able to work with sessions as normal.

Hope that helps!

[aportale]

Yes!

That's it. Thank you!