Accessing Magento admin cookie in a custom file inside a folder

Question

I have a magento installation I want to access the logged in admin credentials in a file inside a subfolder. I make a file and keep it in the root (the same folder where the magento index.php resides). It shows me the logged in user data perfectly. Now when I copy the same file inside a subfolder it returns the data but the data array(which contains the loggedin user information) is empty. Below is the code

require_once ('app/Mage.php');

Mage::app();

$user = Mage::getSingleton('admin/session');

print_r($user);

Answer 1

The proper way to get the current logged in admin user in a sub folder is as below.

require_once ('../app/Mage.php');
$admin = Mage::getSingleton('admin/session')->getUser();

As the custom file is in a sub folder at the root of the magento, so you have to include Mage.php properly as mentioned in above code.

Now you can fetch different admin properties as below:

$admin->getId(); //Get ID
$admin->getUserName() //Get user name

Hope this helps.

Thank you