getUser() returns 0 when logged in

Question

I've tried moving my site and my script to get the Joomla User Information is returning 0 (the guest account) despite being logged in.

The only change I had to make, once moving servers, was the location of the $JRoot folder to match the new server layout.

<?php
$temp = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$temp = str_replace("one_url", "another_url", $temp);
if($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] =='::1') {
    $JRoot = $temp;
} else {
    $JRoot = $temp;
}
define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
define('JPATH_BASE', $JRoot );
define('JPATH_ROOT', $JRoot );
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
$defines = $JRoot . "/includes/defines.php";
$framework = $JRoot . "/includes/framework.php";
echo "defines: " . $defines . "<br />";
echo "DS:" . DS  . "<br />";
require_once ($defines);
require_once ($framework);

$mainframe = JFactory::getApplication('site');
$mainframe->initialise();

function GetJoomUser() {
    $user = JFactory::getUser();
    $JomUser['id'] = $user->id;
    $JomUser['usergroups'] = $user->groups; 
    $JomUser['username'] = $user->username;
    print_r($user);
    return $JomUser;
}
function getJoomlaUsername($id) {
    $user = JFactory::getUser($id);
    $username=$user->get('username');
    return $username;
}

This code is working because I've used file_exists statements (in testing) to assure defines & framework are being found.

When logged in, I can see my User Profile so I know that I'm successfully logged in.

So why is $user printing out the Guest information?

Answer 1

So I've tried replicating your directory path and I believe you may have set the paths up incorrectly.

The following worked for me:

<?php

// Constants
define('_JEXEC', 1);
define('JPATH_BASE', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../site.com/cms'));
define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

// Require
require_once JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php';
require_once JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php';

// Application
JFactory::getApplication('site')->initialise();

// Funtions
function GetJoomUser()
{
    $user = JFactory::getUser();

    $JomUser['id']         = $user->id;
    $JomUser['usergroups'] = $user->groups; 
    $JomUser['username']   = $user->username;

    return $JomUser;
}

function getJoomlaUsername($id)
{
    $user = JFactory::getUser($id);

    return $user->get('username');
}

// Call functions
$GetJoomUser       = GetJoomUser();
$getJoomlaUsername = getJoomlaUsername($GetJoomUser['id']);

// Dump Data
var_dump($GetJoomUser);
var_dump($getJoomlaUsername);

Try replacing all the code in your PHP file with the above code.

It returned the following for me:

array (size=3)
  'id' => string '244' (length=3)
  'usergroups' => 
    array (size=1)
      8 => string '8' (length=1)
  'username' => string 'Lodder' (length=9)

string 'Lodder' (length=9)

On a side note, your GetJoomUser is pointless. There's no need to create a new array of object values when you can simply call each one like so:

$user->id;
$user->groups; 
$user->username;

Answer 2

Ok... I solved the problem. It was all based on the new structure and the cookies.

I had to set System->Global Configuration->Cookie Domain to '.p3proswing.com' (as this is were the pages that reference this stored (stored in p3proswing.com/P3Live).

Next I needed to be sure all my menu items are pointed to www.p3proswing.com/P3Live/.... urls.

Then it writes the cookie to www.p3proswing.com and reads from it when the pages call the GetUserInfo3.php file.