title: Social Engine 4 authentication check
body: <p>I have a website and within it, Social Engine 4.1.4 is just a sub-module. I am using the login system of Social Engine in my website. When a user login and then comes back to the site homepage, I want to show his login status. I mean, that if the user is logged in SE4, then I should greet him with his name. How can I do the same. </p>
  
  <p>My site is not using Zend Framework. Since the session data is stored in the table <strong>engine4_core_session</strong>, I was thinking of a way to decode the serialized <strong>data</strong> column in some way by getting the specific user row through the *session_id*. I'm not getting the way to decode the data. </p>