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Reading PHP session variables with Classic ASP

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Forum Name: Classic ASP Discussion
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URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=31802
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Topic: Reading PHP session variables with Classic ASP

Posted By: ppowell777
Subject: Reading PHP session variables with Classic ASP
Date Posted: 02 July 2024 at 5:18pm

Is it possible to read a session variable set by a separate PHP file using Classic ASP?

I have these files:

/index/blah.asp:

```

<%@ language = "Javascript" %>
<!-- #include file="globals/prototypes.asp" -->
<!-- #include file="includes/blah.asp" -->

```

/includes/blah.asp:

```

<%
	var obj = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP");
	
    obj.open("GET", "http://localhost/index/includes/blah.php", false);
    obj.send();
    Response.Write(obj.responseText);
        
	for (var i in Session.Contents) {
   Response.Write("Session.Contents(\"" + i + "\") = " + Session.Contents(i) + "<BR /><BR />");
	}
%>

```

/includes/blah.php:

```

<?php
	$str = 'Hello World';
	echo '$str = ' . $str . "<Br /><BR />";
	$_SESSION['helloworld'] = $str;
	
?>

```

The reason for this is to prevent having to change an entire section of a website from ASP to PHP, thus, altering the forward-facing URL which currently ends in "*.asp" and has done for years, but the means of dynamically populating its content could possibly be changed from ASP to PHP, using session variables to pass back and forth.

If not possible, then everything will remain in Classic ASP and I'll call it a day, but at least I figured I would ask in case I missed something.

Thanks

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 July 2024 at 6:06pm

When I have needed ASP and PHP to talk to each other in the past I have built an API to handle the communication between the two.

If the PHP files are in a folder with no ASP files you could add a web.config file to the folder with a handler that sets *.asp files to be handled by PHP instead of ASP, so you can continue using the .asp extension, but with your PHP files.

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