Hello Hiren,

Make sure that your Magento application and the parent site share the same cookie and/or you should be able to generate the Magento cookie with the same cookie domain path with your parent site to share the same session.

Thanks for dropping by 🙂

Thank you very much for this helpful post!

I have similar problem. First of all i would like to overview the exact problem.

I have my external site setup in core php. I am using magento as a part of this parent site and i have to run the magento within iframe of parent website.

Now what exactly I want is, if I logged in to the parent website than it should also logged me in to the magento front end site as a customer once I click on the magento link.

I have managed the registration process. So if i register to the parent website than the record is also added to the magento database as a customer.

I do not have any idea that how I synchronize the session of my external site into magento site.

Our external site creates a sessionhash once user logged in to the site and it keeps the sessionhash throughout the whole user session and it uses this session hash to authenticate user on every page.

Your quick help/solution would be really appreciated as I am running short of time.

Thanks in advance.

Hiren

Glad that you figured it out 🙂 Keep on reading.

I found that this solution also works …
if(!($session->isLoggedIn()))
{
Mage::getSingleton(‘customer/session’)->setBeforeAuthUrl($this->getRequest()->getRequestUri());

it saves the url for where it will be redirected to after login/registration page…

will be glad..if it will work for others too…..

Try using:

Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirect(...) ;

or

Mage::_redirect(...);

or another sample

header( 'Location: ' . Mage::helper('checkout/url')->getCheckoutUrl() );

Check the samples here
This can also help you.

I am having one small problem here…

I have a magento CMS page which links to the module phtml which decides whether to let the user access external website or not….

“frontend”));
$session = Mage::getSingleton(“customer/session”);
if(!($session->isLoggedIn()))
{
header(“Location:/customer/account/login/login_url/ “);
Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’)->addError($this->__(‘Before you can access ABC website you must first create an account or login with us’));
exit;
}
else
{
header(“Status: 301”);
header(“Location: http://ABC.com “);
exit;
}
?>

here when the user is not logged in and is taken to dual page where he can either do the registration or login…after that he should be taken to ABC.com..how can that be achieved..i tried geturl() and seturl() but didn`t worked :(..

Hmm I think that would post security issues unless you’re gonna access it thru other means except http.

Are you aware of a way to access the mage.php file in the same way, but from an application on a separate server – without changing permissions on that file?

We want to carry the high level cart information like price and item quantity between the website and the Magento store hosted on another server, so maybe you see a better way to do that?