can php cron jobs access session variables/cookies?

Question

i am new to cron jobs and i have done much searching on this topic but i couldn't understand it fully. can cron jobs access cookies or session variables?

thanks!

Answer 1

A cron job won't be able to access cookies, since by definition it is not being invoked from a web browser request. Only the web browser stores a cookie, which contains the session id. No web browser, no cookie, no session.

Having said that, if you do know the session id somehow, you should be able to start the session manually by feeding the id into session_id() before using session_start().