How To Set ColdFusion Sesssion using Action Hooks

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Seeing as this had me stumped for quite some time I thought I would post the solution here.

 

Anyway, I needed a way to set a ColdFusion session for the userID of the logged in WHMCS user so I could use it in areas outside the client account area. Now as ColdFusion works server side and you can't easily access PHP sessions with it I tried a million different ways until I hit on this simple method...

 

1) Create a new action hook in /includes/hooks and add the following code:

 

<?php
function login_redirect($vars) {
   //url-ify the data for the redirect
   foreach($vars as $key=>$value) { $vars_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
       rtrim($vars_string,'&');

   header('Location: /your_coldfusion_file.cfm?' . $vars_string); 
exit;
}
add_hook("ClientLogin",1,"login_redirect"); 
?>

 

2) Create the file to receive the URL so in the example above your_coldfusion_file.cfm and add this:

<cfset session.isloggedin=True>
<cfset session.custid=url.userid>
<cflocation url="../portal/clientarea.php" addtoken="no">

 

On logging in the client bounces off your ColdFusion file, sets the session vars and returns back to the client area. Now you have the userID stored in a ColdFusion session you can use it outside of the portal in ColdFusion files.