have you looked at this thread? getting cake DB session to an external application:
http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/5a868ad24cff1c83/3127e7971078becf?lnk=gst&q=cysneros#3127e7971078becf On Apr 18, 1:40 am, acl68 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I was programming an application with Cake and all was well ;-) > Then my colleague and I had the idea to share the login procedure with > the applications he is maintining, so that the login in his > application and the information should be passed on to my cake > application -> Single Sign On for our users! > > Now I have deep trouble to get those two applications to work > together. Using the user table from the other database was simple, but > checking whether somebody has already logged on is what I don't get to > work. The Userinformation is in the common user table, but how can I > load the userinformation in my application without an additional > login? > > Has anyone an idea? > > My ideas are: > 1. Switch Cake session handling completely off and use the session > objects of the general application. But how can I do that? > > 2. Transfer the information from Object/Session_otheraplication to > Object/Session_myCakeapplication . But how can I achieve this? To make > things worse, both varaiable in which teh Sessiondata ist stored are > called $session. > > The Non-Cake application is the leading application so I cannot change > anything / much there. > > Thanks in advance for any hints and ideas! > > Anja --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---