Share sessions between php and node

Question

Is there an recent guide (or example code) to using node, express, and redis/predis to share PHPSESSID?

I\'ve found several tutorials 1-2 years old and they are all

Answer 1

I just wanted to offer an alternate solution here that doesn't require redis and I've been using for a couple years (cross-posting from another answer):

This requires the following:

npm install cookie

npm install php-unserialize

This solution uses the session files on the machine - you shouldn't have to change this line.

session.save_handler = files

^ Should be like this in your php.ini file (default).

Here is the super simple code to retrieve the session data:

var cookie = require('cookie');
var fs = require('fs');
var phpUnserialize = require('php-unserialize');

//This should point to your php session directory.
//My php.ini says session.save_path = "${US_ROOTF}/tmp"
var SESS_PATH = "C:/SomeDirectory/WhereYourPHPIs/tmp/";

io.on('connection', function(socket) {
    //I just check if cookies are a string - may be better method
    if(typeof socket.handshake.headers.cookie === "string") {
        var sid = cookie.parse(socket.handshake.headers.cookie);
        if(typeof sid.PHPSESSID === "undefined") {
          console.log("Undefined PHPSESSID");
        }
        else {
            console.log("PHP Session ID: " + sid.PHPSESSID);
            fs.readFile(SESS_PATH + "sess_" + sid.PHPSESSID, 'utf-8', function(err,data) {
                if(!err) {
                    console.log("Session Data:");
                    var sd = phpUnserialize.unserializeSession(data);
                    console.log(sd);
                }
                else {
                   console.log(err);
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

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