Session management in Garden

mayank

Hi,

I went through the Garden and I found that the Garden has its own session management code. It doesn't uses PHP's built-in session management code. Correct me If I'm wrong.

What is the advantage of that ?

Thanks a lot.

mayank

In PHP, to start a session we need to call session_start() function and all session data is stored in the session superglobal array, $_SESSION.

For example : $_SESSION['name'] = 'value';

So I would like to know how can we achieve this in Garden?

garymardell

$Session = Gdn::Session(); $Session->SetPreference('name', 'value'); // this is persistent $Session->SetAttribute('name', 'value'); // this will last until the next page load (often called flash data)

mayank

Hey Immersion, thanks a lot.

garymardell

No worries, i don't know it off by heart i just know where to look. If you look in librarys/core/class.session.php i think it is then you can see all the methods for the sessions library.

mayank

Hey Immersion,

I created a persistent session data in home controller and tried to print it, It works.
e.g. :
$Session = Gdn::Session(); $Session->SetPreference('name', 'value'); echo $Session->GetPreference('name');

But problem is, being authenticated user when i tried to print the same session data in different controller( say settings), I didn't get anything.