Zend_Session_Namespace from non-Zend PHP

Question

I need to integrate my no-framework code with my brand new Zend Application. But they need to share a session. The problem I am facing is - when I am setting the session variables from the non-zend php using

$_SESSION['MyApp']['user']=$user;

I cant access the session from the Zend Application, i tried both -

print_r($_SESSION['MyApp']['user']);

and

$myAppSession = new Zend_Session_Namespace('MyApp');
print_r($myAppSession->user);

Doesn't work. Info - I have

resources.session.name = "MyApp"

in my bootstrap ini file.

Answer 1

I found a way out, Zend Session has a different session id than normal PHP sessions, so what I did was to send the session id from zend with the request and start the session with that session id -

    if(isset($_REQUEST['sess_id'])) {
        $sess_id = $_REQUEST['sess_id'];
    }

    session_id($sess_id);
    session_start();

Its not beautiful code, but it works.

Answer 2

Zend_Session_Namespace is just a wrapper for $_SESSION so this should be straightforward. When you say it doesn't work, is the $_SESSION array empty? If so, make sure you are creating the sessions in the same way (i.e. using the same session storage, cookie name etc.).

Answer 3

You're confusing session name with ZF session namespaces.

The session name refers to the value stored in the session cookie and does not have any effect on the actual contents of $_SESSION.

For your apps to share a session, they both need to set the same name using session_name() or the session.name php.ini directive.