How can I parse PHP user details (session) to Node.js server?

Question

so I have 2 pages: Chat page which runs on Node.js and Socket.io (WebSockets). And main page where user logins etc... I want to make it so when user logins on main page -> it validates details -> then stores user ID in session and goes into chat where he's identified by his userID.

Oh yeah and user accounts are stored on MySQL.

Answer 1

You can parse PHP (file-based) sessions from node with a module like groan . However, a better solution is probably to use a better session store such as redis . An example of sharing sessions between node and PHP using redis can be found here .

Answer 2

Okay. Cookies mechanism was created to communicate with different environments. Let's use it..

PHP:

Validate user data and save it into DB and then save id to cookies.

NodeJS:

Read that id from cookies and get data from DB (MySQL provider for nodejs)