$_SESSION Variable in EE

Question

[EDIT - I have posted the answer to my question below]

EE 5.2.4

I'm having issues trying to use $_SESSION in EE.

What I would like to do is save an Amazon cart ID in the $_SESSION. Working in regular PHP I'm familiar with this: $_SESSION['cart_id'] = 1234. However when I try to do this in EE I get errors and/or nothing happens.

I thought that maybe what I'm looking for is the cache-access functionality:

So in my class I have this ee()->session->set_cache('amz_cart', 'id', $value);, and in my view I'm trying to see what returns from this ee()->session->cache('amz_cart', 'id');.

Nothing returns with this. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, you can use flashdata to achieve your requirement. For this please follow below syntax.

To set the Flashdata:-

ee()->session->set_flashdata('your_key', 'your_value');

To get the Flashdata:-

echo ee()->session->flashdata('your_key');

HTH

Answer 2

It appears as though I've answered my own question by trial and error.

In my class method I can set the value like this:

$_SESSION['amz_cart']['id'] = $value;

and in the template when I want to access that value I have to do this:

<?php
    session_start();
    echo $_SESSION['amz_cart']['id'];
    session_write_close();
?>

I'm not sure why it works this way but it appears to be working for my needs for the time being.

I'm still interested in a more elegant or EE-based solution that will work the same way.

Thanks everybody!