Julian

okay, brilliant, thank you!

Yep, Mage and Varien are in the list of declared classes, but when I use the last code you wrote above, I get the following error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Controller_Response_Exception' with message 'Cannot send headers; headers already sent in /var/www/vhosts/dialoguebooks.org/subdomains/dev/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/dialogue/header.php, line 20' in /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Controller/Response/Abstract.php:282 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Controller/Response/Abstract.php(115): Zend_Controller_Response_Abstract->canSendHeaders(true) #1 /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(1151): Zend_Controller_Response_Abstract->setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html; char...') #2 /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Cookie.php(93): Mage_Core_Model_App->getResponse() #3 /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Cookie.php(208): Mage_Core_Model_Cookie->_getResponse() #4 /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Mod in /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/lib/Zend/Controller/Response/Abstract.php on line 282

Thanks

Julian

(the second thing I tried above was in a wordpress template)

Although when I run:

<?php
    require_once ( "/var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/Mage.php" );
    Mage::app("default");
    Mage::getSingleton("core/session", array("name" => "frontend"));
?>

I don’t get any output, and when I tried this:

<?php if(class_exists('Mage')){
		Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));
	}

if(class_exists('Mage')){
	$session = Mage::getSingleton("customer/session");
	$magento_message = "Welcome ";
	// Generate a personalize greeting
	if($session->isLoggedIn()){
		$magento_message .= $session->getCustomer()->getData('firstname').' ';
		$magento_message .= $session->getCustomer()->getData('lastname').'!';
	}else{
		$magento_message .= "Guest!";
	}

	echo $magento_message;
}
?>

I just get the ‘Guest!’ message, even though I am logged in with my megnto session.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Julian

Ah, yes the webadmin was lying to me. Thanks for your help!

Hmm, I get this message, although safe mode is definitely off:

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10041 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/Mage.php owned by uid 10050 in /var/www/vhosts/dialoguebooks.org/subdomains/dev/httpdocs/mage.php on line 2

Warning: require_once(/var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/Mage.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Inappropriate ioctl for device in /var/www/vhosts/dialoguebooks.org/subdomains/dev/httpdocs/mage.php on line 2

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/Mage.php’ (include_path=’.:’) in /var/www/vhosts/dialoguebooks.org/subdomains/dev/httpdocs/mage.php on line 2

Hey, thanks for the swift reponse.

When I echo that I get “/var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs” – when I add the path to Mage.php (making /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/app/Mage.php) I get an invalid URL error.

Is this because the wordpress installation and magento installation are on different file roots on the server? (i.e /var/www/vhosts/secure.dialoguebooks.org/httpdocs/ and /var/www/vhosts/dialoguebooks.org/subdomains/dev/httpdocs/)

Thanks

Julian