Multidimensional session

[Adri Kodde]

Is it possible to store and retrieve multidimensional arrays with the
session class?

For example:
$this->kernel->session()->set('backend', array('id' => 2);

This would give some issues in altering and retrieving the data, right?

[Vance Lucas]

Yes, it should be possible. It's just a thin wrapper around native PHP sessions, which serialize the data when the session is written and unserialize the data when the session is loaded.

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Vance Lucas
http://vancelucas.com

[Adri Kodde]

OK, I've tried:

var_dump($this->kernel->session()->get('backend'));
this outputs: array(1) { ["name"]=> int(1) }

I changed the session class function so it only outputs (objects) (by typecasting).
Now I can access the name variable by:
$this->kernel->session()->get('backend')->name

Is this a good solution, you think, or can it be simplified?

By the way, great project! I more and more get to know the way it works. Thanks!

Vance Lucas

8 mei 2012 23:19

Yes, it should be possible. It's just a thin wrapper around native PHP sessions, which serialize the data when the session is written and unserialize the data when the session is loaded.

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Vance Lucas
http://vancelucas.com

Adri Kodde

8 mei 2012 22:46

[Vance Lucas]

It looks like it's outputting an array, so you'll have to do this:

$backend = $this->kernel->session()->get('backend');

var_dump($backend['name']);

If you're lucky enough to have PHP 5.4, you should be able to do this (array de-referencing):

var_dump($this->kernel->session()->get('backend')['name']);

Eventually I want to be able to support dot-notation stuff like this in the Alloy session driver, but it is not currently supported. It is supported in the Request object though for accessing nested POST/GET data, so the code is in Alloy already:

var_dump($this->kernel->session()->get('backend.name');

Regards,

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Vance Lucas
http://vancelucas.com

[Adri Kodde]

Thanks for your response. I've changed my code so it now uses the global session variable instead. The whole setting / getting with the PHP magic methods were causing me too much trouble :)

I've found some threads on google, but haven't found a good solution yet.

Cheers, Adri

Vance Lucas

9 mei 2012 16:30

It looks like it's outputting an array, so you'll have to do this:

$backend = $this->kernel->session()->get('backend');

var_dump($backend['name']);

If you're lucky enough to have PHP 5.4, you should be able to do this (array de-referencing):

var_dump($this->kernel->session()->get('backend')['name']);

Eventually I want to be able to support dot-notation stuff like this in the Alloy session driver, but it is not currently supported. It is supported in the Request object though for accessing nested POST/GET data, so the code is in Alloy already:

var_dump($this->kernel->session()->get('backend.name');

Regards,

--
Vance Lucas
http://vancelucas.com

Adri Kodde

9 mei 2012 09:25