Can't access $this->EE->session in session_end hook

The session object is the first parameter of the sessions_end hook call. It’s not yet a property of the EE instance object:

function sessions_end($OBJ)
{
    echo "Your member ID is ".$OBJ->userdata['member_id'];
}

I see, cool.

Can I still make changes to it from the first object being sent in? Like so:

$OBJ->set_userdata[‘custom_variable’] = “yes”;

OR

$OBJ->set_flashdata[‘custom_variable’] = “yes”;

Thanks

Yeah, just add the by reference operator to the param (&).

function sessions_end(&$session)
{
    echo "Your member ID is ".$session->userdata['member_id'];
}

set_flashdata is a available, but set_userdata is not

$session->set_flashdata('custom_variable', 'yes');
$session->userdata['custom_variable'] = 'yes';

Thanks for all the help. Now I’m trying this:

if(!$SESSION->userdata('language_temp'))
        {
            $SESSION->set_userdata('language_temp', "en");
        }

I get this mad error 😊

Fatal error: Call to undefined method EE_Session::set_userdata() i

Maybe set_userdata and set_flashdata isn’t available in EE 2.1?

I remember that flashdata wasn’t available at all from the beginning.

As a follow on to this - I’m trying to access the logger library to post to the Control Panel Log on sessions_end for a project, but no matter which way I try to load the library / post an item, I get various errors in the CI Log.

Is it possible to reference the logger in the sessions_start/sessions_end hook?

As a follow on to this - I’m trying to access the logger library to post to the Control Panel Log on sessions_end for a project, but no matter which way I try to load the library / post an item, I get various errors in the CI Log. Is it possible to reference the logger in the sessions_start/sessions_end hook?

Can you post your code and error message?

Hi Erik,

Sorry for my delay in replying - been out of the office.

I’ve tried various combinations, based on your article on using the log:

function start_process(&$OBJ) {

$this->EE = $OBJ;

$this->EE->load->library(‘logger’); $this->EE->logger->log_action(“Testing new CP log item”);

}

and many other combinations of the $OBJ-> or $this-> etc to no avail.

Most of the errors I’m getting are various types of “Call to undefined method”.

Cheers,

Carl.

Carl,

You’re using a sessions hook so the object being passed to you is not the EE super object but rather the session object.

You’ll want to use the get_instance() function in your __construct() method and reference the EE super object that way to load and use the log class.

Make sense?

ahhhhh Doh! of course!

Makes perfect sense… I’m just having one of those days/weeks/months! 😊

Cheers,

Carl.

Just as a follow up….

I’ve created the __construct() function as follows:

function __construct() { $this->EE =& get_instance(); }

and then within the function

function send_process(&$OBJ) { $this->EE->load->library(‘logger’); $this->EE->logger->log_action(“Testing Testing 123”); }

However, I’m getting the following error:

Severity: Notice –> Undefined property: Addons_extensions::$session /home/clients/public_html/sandbox/system/expressionengine/libraries/Logger.php 62

Carl,

Since you’re within one of the sessions hook, the session object isn’t actually available within the EE object. This presents an interesting challenge since the log_action() method is referring to the session object.

I’m not sure of the plausibility of this and I also don’t know what it could hurt without further investigation - BUT - this should work:

EE->session =& $OBJ;

   $this->EE->load->library('logger');
   $this->EE->logger->log_action('Testing Testing 123');

   unset($this->EE->session);

}            
?>

I have the unset() function in there just because I haven’t thought through any negatives to defining the EE session object from within the extension hook. Probably best you get a product developer to peek at this as well (Greg, Pascal, Wes etc)

Just a note incase anyone else is head scratching wondering why @rsan’s example doesn’t work…

If you have Low Seg2Cat installed, that has priority 1 set and any other extensions using the same sessions_end hook will result in “Trying to get property of non-object” warnings.

I knocked the priority of Low’s extension down to 10 and all worked as described above.