Get session data in PHP

I may be missing something obvious, but I can't pull the session data into PHP using the obvious:

$var = $this->data['session_name'];

$var = $this->data['session_name']['var'];

$var = $this->var['session_name'];

(and a few other variations)

I can get the session data using {session:session_name.var} but wanted to use the data in a PHP if query - and it looks like it doesn't populate the {} content till afterwards.

Or is this not built in, and I have to pull the data using regular PHP?

Many thanks,

Nicholas.

That's perfect! Thank you.

Hello,
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I tried this, using :
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$mydata = \GApp::session()->get("session_name.var", "default");

And it gave me $mydata = "default". I set the "session_name" to the name of the session set in the Save to Session action.
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What am I doing wrong here?
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Cheers
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Tim

Did you replace ".var" with the variable you were after?

Yep, that worked.
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Thanks heaps. I was previously expecting that I would recover the entire data array and have to decode it, so I didn't consider changing to try to select only one variable.
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So now I am off and running.
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Cheers
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Tim

You CAN get the whole array if you want.

$sessiondata = \GApp::session()->get("session_name", "");

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And then you can use $sessiondata["variable"];

Yes, that works too🙂
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Thanks again
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Tim