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Hello, I have a php page that is handling a donation form and sending the credit card information to the processor and receiving the response back.  I would like to pass information from that php script to a thank you page using sessions.  Then I would be able to display a receipt to the user. 

How can I from the thank you template, grab session data?

Thanks.

You would probably want to use some PHP. The Session or the Input Class should be useful.

Im not sure how the session class works.  If I set the session in the php page such as $_SESSION[‘data’] = ‘value’;  how would I use that in the template?

curt, this is rapidly evolving beyond what regular tech support can offer, so I’ll move this over to Howto. What you have in mind definitely requires some custom coding. ExpressionEngine uses the Input class for fetching all of the incoming data from the superglobal arrays $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, and $_SERVER. The docs on development in general can be found here.

anyone got any ideas?  I tried setting a cookie in the php script then trying to access that cookie with the input class but it did not work.

Curt:

Check out the Functions class and set your cookie with $FNS->set_cookie()  Then you can grab the cookie data with the input class.

To do it this way, your php script would need to “live” within ExpressionEngine.  Or, perhaps you could create a module to deal with this too.

Kind of a non-answer, but something to think about.  😊

-greg

Not sure if using the Session Variables plugin would work in this case if you are setting the value elsewhere other than with the plugin but it might give you a good start to seeing how plugins are created.

You could also as Greg has mentioned set a cookie. There is already a cookie plugin for ExpressionEngine and perhaps you can see how this one works too.

Best wishes,

Mark

THANKS!  The sessions variable plugin works great.  I can set the session in php like normal and the plugin can access the value.

Thanks a lot.

THANKS!  The sessions variable plugin works great.  I can set the session in php like normal and the plugin can access the value.

Thanks a lot.

No problem. Glad it worked for you 😉

Hope everything else goes well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark