Accessing session data outside Joomla

Question

I am trying to run an application outside Joomla (not as a plugin) and I would like to access the logged in user\'s information (userid). I am wondering how should I go abou

Answer 1

to get the user id you need to use Joomlas functions:

$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$user->get('id');

will let you get the user ID. you will however need to do this inside of the joomla page so i dont know how usefult hat will be to you.