I understand codeigniter sets up sessions for you if you load the library. However, I want to have my own set of rules. I thought I could do it by adding userdata and checking to see if its exists on each page load. However, its not working...
Here is my welcome controller...
class Welcome extends CI_Controller
{
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
//$this->output->enable_profiler(TRUE);
$this->load->helper(array('form', 'url'));
$this->load->library('form_validation');
$this->load->library('session');
$this->load->helper('url');
}
function index($cliqid='', $cliq=false)
{
$default_cliq = 5; //this equals whatever the user sets
$this->page_m->load_session($default_cliq); //check to see if session is new; if so, perform list of actions
//$this->session->sess_destroy();
print_r($this->session->all_userdata());
}
}
It points to page_m which consists of the load session method where I want to apply some session variables to be used throughout the visitor's stay on the page:
Here is a brief excerpt:
class Page_m extends CI_Model
{
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->load->model('cliq_info_m');
}
function load_session($default_cliq)
{
//check if session is new
if ($this->session->userdata('exists') == true) {
//the list of things to do
$this->record_session(); //check if ip exists in DB, if not, record
$this->cliq_info_m->change_active($default_cliq);
//make session old
$data['exissts'] = true;
$this->session->set_userdata($data);
} else {
return false;
}
}
What happens...is it runs this every time, regardless of the 'exists' variable.
Anyone know why? And a possible solution?