Authenticate user for socket.io/nodejs

Question

I have a php login, the user puts in a username/password, it checks the mysql db against the login information. If authenticated a session is created via php and the user ca

Answer 1

Remember that sessions are just files stored in the php sessions directory. It won't be a problem for node.js to get the session id from the cookie and then check if the session really exists in the sessions directory. To get the path of the sessions directory refer to the session.save_path directive in your php.ini.