Can someone quickly help me out with CodeIgniter's syntax. I need to access an array I stored in the session's userdata and I cant figure out the proper syntax.
<?php echo $this->session->userdata['user_session']['first_name']; ?>
gives me this error:
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array
All of the answers given in this Question dont work: Access array variable in session (CodeIgniter)
This is how you get session data:
echo $this->session->userdata('first_name');
Been a while since I've worked in Codeigniter, but if I can remember correctly, when you store an array like you've stated, you'd call it like this:
$this->session->userdata("user_session")['first_name'];
Let me know if that works?
Or you can store that data to a variable, and call the array that way. Like such:
$data = array("bar" => "the_value");
$this->session->set_userdata("foo", $data);
$foo = $this->session->userdata("foo");
echo $foo["bar"]; //Outputs the_value
Let me know if that helped.
However, just to let you know.. Normally, storing the session data goes as follows:
$this->session->set_userdata("first_name", "value");
Really no need to go and set your own array inside of userdata, because that's generally what the userdata array is for.
I found the proper syntax. Well, at least one way to go about it. @Matt GrubB was the closest and put me on the right track.
$temp_session = $this->session->userdata('user_session');
echo $temp_session->first_name;
Since userdata is an object full of info created when I query my database, the easiest way to access the data is to take it and put it in another temporary array. You then have to stab it. I kept stumbling by trying to do $this->temp_session->first_name or something of the like.
var_dump($this->session->userdata);and read the error message carefully (you will wonder but it's output so that you could read it)