Pulling in Magento Session Information is buggy

Question

Hello,

I am pulling in Magento session information on a custom page using this code structure:

require_once ( "../app/Mage.php" );
umask(0);
Mage::app("default");

Mage::getSingleton("core/session", array("name" => "frontend"));
$session = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session"); 
$test = array();
//print_r($session);

if($session->isLoggedIn()){
    Set some session variables
} //end session check

else {
    //They don't belong here.  Transfer them to a login page
    header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/customer/account/login/");
} 

It works great most of the time, but from time to time it doesn't seem to pull in session information sometimes. My print_r looks like this:

Mage_Customer_Model_Session Object
(
    [_customer:protected] => 
    [_isCustomerIdChecked:protected] => 
    [_skipSessionIdFlag:protected] => 
    [_data:protected] => Array
        (
            [_session_validator_data] => Array
            (
                    [remote_addr] => an.ip.addr.ess
                    [http_via] => 
                    [http_x_forwarded_for] => 
                    [http_user_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
                )

        [session_hosts] => Array
            (
                [www.mydomain.com] => 1
            )

    )

[_origData:protected] => 
[_idFieldName:protected] => 
[_isDeleted:protected] => 
)

But if I leave the header:location tag on, it brings me to the account page because I am logged in.

Has anyone else experienced this? How do I avoid it? I'm stumped.

Answer 1

I dont know why you are using header but try using this code

require_once ( "../app/Mage.php" );
umask(0);
Mage::app("default");

$session = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session"); 

if($session->isLoggedIn()){
   var_dump($session->getData());
}