Memcache, Mongodb or other Database storage for Lithium Sessions

Question

I'm getting comfortable with the Lithium framework, and was wondering if there were any samples for using MongoDB or Memcache for Lithium Sessions. Would there need to be a new Session Adapter written?

Answer 1

One option is to set the session adapter to 'Php' in lithium and pass 'session.save_handler' => 'memcached' to the config options which will use the memcached extension's save handler to store sessions in memcache:

Session::config(array(
    'default' => array(
        'adapter' => 'Php',
        'session.save_handler' => 'memcached',
        'session.save_path' => 'sess1:11211, sess2:11211'
    )
));

http://php.net/manual/en/memcached.sessions.php

I store sessions in MongoDb by using the 'Model' adapter (which is available on lab.lithify.me):

Session::config(array(
    'default' => array(
        'adapter' => 'Model',
        'model' => 'app\models\Sessions',
        'name' => 'session'
    )
));

http://lab.lithify.me/lab/extensions/view/a68f6ad626aaf7be37805f8e72f672e2

Answer 2

New adapters must be written for those:

• https://github.com/UnionOfRAD/lithium/tree/master/storage/session/adapter
• http://li3.me/docs/lithium/storage/session/adapter

Unless you keep using the PHP adapter and leverage session_set_save_handler which just got better in PHP 5.4.

I'd go with the second solution.