I'm currently developing a new Moodle portal that has to integrate with an already existing web site. I thought I could just use PHP's $_SESSION variable to pass data from the other system to Moodle but it seems like Moodle resets my session variable.
How can I prevent Moodle from doing this?
What would be the correct way to pass session data to Moodle?
Moodle initialises and makes use of the PHP $_SESSION variable itself, so, unless you are wanting to rewrite many major parts of Moodle, you should not be touching $_SESSION at all.
Moodle does have a variable called $SESSION, which it uses to store session data. You may have some success with including the Moodle config.php file, then adding values to $SESSION, if you want to pass them on to other code you have running within Moodle itself.
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Thank you very much for the replies. You have been most helpful
