PHP Session in iFrame in Safari and other browsers.
Posted On: May 27, 2014
Problem: session does not get created in the iframe from another domain. Solution is below.
Solution for most browsers will be placing following line right before you start your session
header('P3P: CP="CAO PSA OUR"');
session_start();
This will allow you create session in iFrame in most browsers. (what is it can be found here: http://www.w3.org/P3P/)
After placing this most browsers will work, but Safari will not. Here is another workaround for safari: (iFrame source www.domain.com placed on the www.otherDomain.com)
1. On load of iFrame check if we are using safari and session is not created, and if so ->
2. Redirect parent window to the www.domain.com, create session there
3. Redirect back to the www.otherDomain.com where iFrame is used.
Here is code that you need to place:
IFrame code:
<?php
header('P3P: CP="CAO PSA OUR"');
session_start();
// Check if safari
// Check if not chrome, because chrome outputs Safari*
// Check if no cookie/session is set
if (strpos($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"], "Safari")
&& !strpos($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"], "Chrome")) {
if (count($_COOKIE) === 0) {
echo "<script>
top.location = 'http://domain.com/setSession.php';
</script>";
exit(); // need to be there in order not to load the rest of the page
}
}
?>
setSession.php code:
<?php
header('P3P: CP="CAO PSA OUR"');
session_start();
$_SESSION = array(); // set session
echo "<script> top.location = 'http://otherDomain.com'; </script>";
?>
* HTTP_USER_AGENT output of Chrome:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36
Associated tags:
PHP,
Safari,
Session,
Session_start
Comments:
Marta Johnssons wrote on
December 4, 2014 at 09:39
If I understand it correct both sites must add a code? The source site and a site with an iframe? Am I rigt? Does it still work?
Michaels wrote on
December 5, 2014 at 17:14
This is the code for Iframe and page on the same website as iframe.
