Session integration

Hello all,

I hope I'm not missing something.

A while back (several months ago) I came across information that allowed me to check if a person was logged into their WHMCS account allowing me to personalize their experience within the main part of my website. It was utilizing the PHP session that had been created.

I had it working well and if the person was logged in then they were presented with a link back to their client area, and if not, then they were presented with the login form that went to the WHMCS dologin.php file.

Fast forward to now. I started looking into more integration that would show my clients their cart count, whether thaey were logged in or not (meaning, someone that is not a client yet and was shopping on the site but outside of the WHMCS area).

when it didn't work, I also discovered that my login checks were also not working and the login form is always displayed.

Finding this, I found that the PHP and WHMCS session id's are now different. I am currently running WHMCS v5.2.14.

Here is what I found when checking cookie data:

- There is a PHP session id - when I echo session_id() I this.
- There is one called WHMCS + a random string - the content of that cookie is the return of session_id()

Here are my questions:

Why are there now 2 variables?
How can I use the WHMCS session variable outside of the WHMCS installation so I can get my personalization back and access the cart data?

Could someone help me with these issues, or point out my mistakes?

Thank your assistance.