Best way to deal with session handling in Zend Framework
- by JACK IN THE CRACK
So I'm starting up in Zend framework and looking to implement a site-wide "User" session.... something I can easily access from ALL modules/controllers in the application.
I'm like, should I make a new namespace in the library and extend the controller, like:
MyLib_Controller_Action extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
protected $_userSession;
function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $req)
{
$this->_userSession = new Zend_Session_Namespace('user');
}
}
ANd then have all my controllers/modules/etc extend from that?
Or should I create a Plugin or what? How would you go about making this plugin to pass the user session to the controller?
Or do I do it in the bootstrap?? Again how to pass to controller?
Also should I use Zend_Session_Namespace or Zend_Http_Cookie and also how do I encrypt and xss clean the cookie or is that did automagically?
