Set Session data via xPDO API?

How do you set session data via xPDO? Normally, I’d just do $_SESSION[’xyz’] = ’something’ -- but that doesn’t take advantage of the glorious possibilities of load-balancing etc.

I’m RTFM’ing... but nothing yet. Any pointers? Thanks!

There’s no session-related functionality in xPDO. But in Revo you can define a ’session_handler_class’, a class that handles session storage functions.
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/session_handler_class
In any case, in your code, you’ll still use $_SESSION, nothing more to it than that. That way you can write code once and changed how it’s cached later.

Quote from: Everett at Dec 16, 2010, 04:24 PM

How do you set session data via xPDO? Normally, I’d just do $_SESSION[’xyz’] = ’something’ -- but that doesn’t take advantage of the glorious possibilities of load-balancing etc.

I’m RTFM’ing... but nothing yet. Any pointers? Thanks!

It does handle load balancing because the sessions are stored in the database. Just use $_SESSION as per normal PHP development. Just don’t ever manually start the sessions as MODx takes care of that.

So you can define how the $_SESSION variable is handled? I thought that was only configurable by php.ini...

Quote from: Everett at Dec 17, 2010, 03:15 PM

So you can define how the $_SESSION variable is handled? I thought that was only configurable by php.ini...

You sure can; you can set it at runtime using session_set_save_handler(). You can also code/provide your own custom session save handler class.