Accessing $_SESSION when using file_get_contents

PHP
1

I have a page called send.email.php which sends an email - pretty simple stuff - I pass an order id, it creates job request and sends it out. This works fine when used in the context I developed it (Use javascript to make an AJAX call to the URL and pass the order_id as a query parameter)

I am now trying to reuse the exact same page in another page however I am calling it using php

file_get_contents($base_url.'admin/send.email.php?order_id='.$order_id)

. When I call the page this way, the $_SESSION array is empty isempty() = 1.

Is this because I am initiating a new session using file_get_contents and the values I stored in the $_SESSION on login are not available to me within there?

It makes sense that the new call doesn’t have access to the existing session…I have now tried to send the cookies across but I cannot access the page:

I now get: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! When trying to execute:

$opts = array('http' => array('header'=> 'Cookie: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_COOKIE']."\\r\
"));
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$contents = file_get_contents($base_url.'admin/send.sms.php?order_id='.order_id, false, $context);

YET, the URL works fine if I call it as: (It just doesn’t let me access session)

$result file_get_contents($base_url.'admin/send.sms.php?order_id='.$order_id)

;

2

file_get_contents does not pass on session data.

I THINK you’re looking for include() rather than file_get_contents()… but without seeing the code for the send_email page, i cant be sure.

3

May be curl can helo you
and this page as well
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10346748

4

Have you got at the start of the script:

session_start();