Retrieve $login variable outside of x-cart pages
 

I have a shop currently that has category and product pages which have html add to cart links to x-cart. I would like to have my other pages be able to retrieve the $login variable from x-cart once it is set and greet the user on all other pages not generated by the smarty engine. I've tried setting it as a session variable but that doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to greet users on non smarty pages?
Thanks,
Marnix

Might want to start here:

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=26730

that doesn't seem to offer how to retrieve the $login variable after it has been set though, I just need to be able to access it for other pages... any ideas?

I have the same need - 1 website with 2 sections that need to be linked but separate.
Section 1. has user membership requiring login to view content/member-only pages. This is already built with custom admin front end etc
Section 2. is the site online store which takes care of prod orders + user logon details

Both sections access the same database but I don't want to make users login twice if I can just carry a session variable across between pages, accessing {$login} from the other section of the site.

Any help appreciated :)

Re: Retrieve $login variable outside of x-cart pages
 

Are there any updates on this?

I have a website running two different applications, a custom PHP application in one directory, and x-cart in another. I am interested in figuring out how to retrieve the $login variable from my custom PHP app, since I would like to show a login form if $login is empty, and hide the form if $login is set.

Also, as a side question, is it possible to retrieve cart information on non-xcart pages? Showing a mini-cart on my custom PHP app would be pretty useful as well.

Any thoughts?

Re: Retrieve $login variable outside of x-cart pages
 

Not very good coding practice but you can use a global variable to allow access to the data. To add this all you need is to add this line to any php module where $login is being either set and used.


Then use the $login variable as you would normally.

To use the $login in a tpl module it will be more complicated. To access it on a tpl page you can use this code:

Re: Retrieve $login variable outside of x-cart pages
 

Hey rogue,

Thanks! Insightful information, might come in handy for other uses. I actually found another thread that discussed how to add login/minicart functionality to non-xcart pages.

Here it is for anyone that's interested: http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=14443

Best regards,
ewebartist