QloApps Documentation

# Cookies

To save all the session information QloApps uses encrypted cookies. Cookies are saved for visitors/customers as well as for employees/administrators.

Cookie class is used for all the read and write operations.

Within QloApps code you can access cookies through cookie object in context object:

$this->context->cookie;
  • To get all the data of the cookie you can get it by cookie's name using the below code:
$this->context->cookie->variable;
  • In case you want to use a cookie from non QloApps codes you have to include some files and you can access cookies using the below code -
// include belo files
include_once('QloApps_path/config/config.inc.php');
include_once('QloApps_path/config/settings.inc.php');
include_once('QloApps_path/classes/Cookie.php');

$cookie = new Cookie('ps');

// For employee's cookie Use "psAdmin".
$cookie = new Cookie('psAdmin');

Below is the list of cookies stored for visitors/customers -

Token Description
ajax_blockcart_display Whether the cart block is "expanded" or "collapsed".
checkedTOS Whether the "Terms of service" checkbox has been ticked (1 if it has and 0 if it hasn't)
checksum The Blowfish checksum used to determine whether the cookie has been modified by a third party. The customer will be logged out and the cookie deleted if the checksum doesn't match.
customer_firstname The first name of the customer.
customer_lastname The last name of the customer.
date_add The date and time the cookie was created (in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format).
email The email address that the customer used to log in.
id_cart The ID of the current cart displayed in the cart block.
id_connections The connection ID of the visitor's current session.
id_currency The ID of the selected currency.
id_customer The customer ID of the visitor when logged in.
id_guest The guest ID of the visitor when not logged in.
id_lang The ID of the selected language.
id_wishlist The ID of the current wishlist displayed in the wishlist block.
last_visited_category The ID of the last visited category of product listings.
logged Whether the customer is logged in
passwd The MD5 hash of the COOKIE_KEY in config/settings.inc.php and the password the customer used to log in
viewed The IDs of recently viewed products as a comma-separated list.

Below is the list of cookies stored for an employee/administrator

Token Description
date_add The date and time the cookie was created (in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format).
id_lang The ID of the selected language.
id_employee The ID of the employee.
lastname The last name of the employee.
firstname The first name of the employee.
email The email address the employee used to log in.
profile The ID of the profile that determines which tabs the employee can access.
passwd The MD5 hash of the COOKIE_KEY in config/settings.inc.php and the password the employee used to log in.
checksum The Blowfish checksum used to determine whether the cookie has been modified by a third party. If the checksum doesn't match, the customer will be logged out and the cookie is deleted .

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