Custom Sessions with Joomla

Question

I\'ve trying to build Joomla into my existing website so I can use it for premium content.

I\'ve already got a custom-built authentication system that sets my own

Answer 1

Joomla 1.5 uses a JSession class.

As everything in Joomla is powered by it's own internal framework, I wouldn't recommend writing pure PHP for something like sessions, as it's likely that Joomla overwrites old session variables when it initializes it's own internal session management code.