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Hello,

I just updated to 2.5.3 and see that one of my functions is now broken. It was used so that a member logged into EE would remain logged in on some non-EE pages on the site.

Looks like the uniqueid cookie status is deprecated, and I’m wondering how to go about doing this now. Here’s the original query:

$query = "select unique_id, username from exp_members where unique_id = '$_COOKIE[exp_uniqueid]'";
    $conn = mysql_query($query)
    or die ("Cannot execute query");
    if (mysql_num_rows($conn)<1) { ...

Thank you.

Hi PDM,

I’m not seeing reference to that cookie in any recent versions, and I know the members authentication library has changed significantly since EE 2 was first released. Could you let me know which version you upgraded from? In which EE version was this working the way you describe?

Hi Kevin,

I’d updated from 2.1.1-20101020 to 2.5.3-20120911. Thanks for checking this out.

Yep, looks like all references to that cookie are non-existent as of EE 2.2.0.

Could we take a step back and look at what you’re trying to accomplish? What does it look like and why do you need folks “logged in” on non-EE pages? There might be a better way to do this.

That would explain the break! Short story is it’s a site in transition, and the log in area is at the top of all pages (both EE and non-EE), and so need a persistent log-in status throughout the site.

Good news is I just figured out a solution this morning by adding a session_start() call and setting a PHP session variable on the page that loads after log-in, and then tweaked the above query to:

session_start(); 
 $query = "select unique_id, username from exp_members where member_id = '$_SESSION[exp_uniqueid]'";

Feel free to close thread. Thanks!

Glad to hear you found a solution! Let us know when we can help again.