Webservice and check if user is logged in

[cirrus3d]

Hi all,

I am currently writing an external PHP application to create products using the webservice.

By external I mean this is a normal HTML/PHP page, the user fills in the product data, and then the product is created when he presses submit.

How do I check if the user is logged in or not? Can I do this using the webservice? Do I need to keep a separate user database on my system?

Thanks

[CartExpert.net]

Hi.

 

The logged in status is stored with cookies, so you can't check from another domain if a user is logged in or not.

 

Regards.

 

Robin.

 

The CartExpert Team

[cirrus3d]

Thanks for the reply. My external html/page will be on the same domain. How do I check from there?

[CartExpert.net]

Hi.

 

You need to include the config.inc.php file and check with PHP if user is logged in.

 

Regards.

 

Robin.

 

The CartExpert Team

[cirrus3d]

Thanks for the reply. To help others, bootstrapping prestashop into your php file is easy. On top of your page you can include:

include(dirname(__FILE__).'/config/config.inc.php');
include(dirname(__FILE__).'/init.php');
global $cookie;

if your php file is on the site root.

Then, to see if a user is logged in or not you can do a:

echo $cookie->logged;

and it will return true if the user is logged in, or nothing if he is not.

Edited November 20, 2012 by cirrus3d (see edit history)