Get Magento 1.7.0.2 Logged In Admin ID From Custom Script Running On Same Domain

Question

I seem to have exhausted every example on google and stackoverflow. Please could someone tell me if this is even possible?

My script is in a folder along side the magento install. eg.

/var/www/app
/var/www/skin
/var/www/myCustomScript

I'm trying grab the current logged in admin id.

One of many examples I have tried.

require_once ("/var/www/app/Mage.php");
umask(0);
Mage::app();
$user = Mage::getSingleton('admin/session');
$userId = $user->getUser()->getUserId();
echo $userId;

Answer 1

What is the calling context? If you are trying to initialize the session from a context other than the browser which has the adminhtml cookie, you're going to have a bad time. If this is in a standalone script you will need to login via curl.

Answer 2

<?php
require_once ("app/Mage.php");
umask(0);
Mage::app();
Mage::getSingleton('core/session',array('name'=>'adminhtml'));
$user = Mage::getSingleton('admin/session');
$userId = $user->getUser()->getUserId();
echo $userId;
?>