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Is there any way to save a variable in the Craft session inside a controller?

I'm running a cron job and I need to store a variable as a session for every run to see if a condition matches.

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Craft's HttpSessionService is a thin wrapper for PHP's global $_SESSION variable.

You can use:

craft()->httpSession->add($key, $value)

and:

craft()->httpSession->get($key)

to save and retrieve values from it.

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  • Brad - How would you grab the key in a twig template? Nov 5, 2014 at 4:28
  • We don't expose a HttpSessionVariable class where you'd be able to access that. Hit us up at [email protected] if you think you have a valid use-case where you think that'd be necessary from a template.
    – Brad Bell
    Nov 5, 2014 at 5:29
  • Gotcha. I actually got what I needed from setFlash instead of httpSession. Thanks. Nov 5, 2014 at 5:35
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And for those needing this for Craft 3...

Set (previously called 'add'):

Craft::$app->getSession()->set($key, $value);

Get

Craft::$app->getSession()->get($key);
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