Joomla User login check

Question

Hello, First I am not a joomla developer. My friend has a web site created with joomla 1.5. In webroot there are some joomla files. I created a directory in webroot "mydirectory" and i have an index file in this directory. I try to access joomla's user info in this page i grab the user object but it doesn't work.

 //i included joomla core  files
 $user =& JFactory::getUser();

 if ($user->get('guest')) {
     echo 'guest';
 } else {
 echo 'not guest';
 }

when i login to my account it says 'guest' again.

Also i can't find anything in Joomla's session class. $session =& JFactory::getSession();

Thanks

Answer 1

Try print_r($user) to see what items you are getting back.