John Davidson

Message:

In my codeigniter application I have specified a session as below

$this->session->isLoggedIn = true;



echo "Session";



echo $this->session->isLoggedIn;

even though I assign true the output shows as 1 instead. What have I done wrong here?

would really appreciate some help

EDIT :- The problem was actually in the following

When I try to acess this session from another method the session value is set to null. My other function is defined as

public function isLoggedIn()

{

    var_dump($this->session->isLoggedIn);



    if ((isset($this->session->isLoggedIn)=="true"))

    {

        return "true";

    }

    else

    {

        return "Sorry,false";

    }

}

the vardump that I am printing in this isLoggedIn function is Null even though the session variable was assigned as displayed in the initial code above

---

My Answer:
session->set_userdata('logged_in', true);

However, when I retrieve the value of 'logged_in' session using $this->session->userdata('logged_in'), it returns 1 instead of true.

This is because PHP's session handling mechanism stores boolean values as integers (0 for false and 1 for true). So when you set the session value to true, it gets stored as 1 in the session data.

To check if the session value is true, you can use the following code:

php
if ($this->session->userdata('logged_in') === true) {
// Session value is true
} else {
// Session value is not true
}


This way, you can properly check if the session value is true even though it is stored as 1 in the session data.