access codeigniter session values from external files

Question

In my codeigniter project i have added KCK finder.

it needs some of session values which is controlled by codeigniter. how can i access CI session values from extern

Answer 1

Bens answer with include('index.php') and getting CI instance is not bad but in my situation these actions are too slow.

As i have codeigniter set to use files i made this solution which is a bit faster:

function CIsession()
{
    $pathToSessionFiles = 'path/to/files/set/in/codeigniter/config/';

    $h = md5($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); // $config['sess_match_ip'] = TRUE;
    foreach( glob($pathToSessionFiles . '*' ) as $f )
    {   
        if( strpos($f, $h) ) { $s[ $f ] = filemtime($f); }
    }
    arsort($s);
    $s = array_keys($s);
    $s = reset($s);
    $s = file($s);
    $s = reset($s);
    $s = explode(';', $s);
    foreach($s as $k => $v)
    {
        $s[$k] = str_getcsv($v, ":", '"');
        $s[$k][0] = substr(reset($s[$k]), 0, strpos(reset($s[$k]), '|'));

        $s[reset($s[$k])] = end($s[$k]);
        unset($s[$k]);
    }

    return $s;
}

Hope it helps someone!