[geeklog-devel] New Plugin Wish

[Tom Willett]

> You are right, our custom PHP session handler will allow plugins to pass 
> data around.
> 
> If you want to have a value (or object) just add it to the $_SESSION 
> superglobal:
> 
> $user = &AEService::Authenticate($userName, $password);
> $_SESSION['user'] = $user;
> 
> Then on subsequent page requests you would have access to the user 
> object in the session.  Please note if you put objects in session the 
> class definition needs to be included before you bring it out of the 
> session.  Also, for GL2 we will need to set some ground rules on what 
> can go in the session.  Sessions sizes should be measured in KB not MB.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> --Tony
> 
Perfect, just what I was thinking of, that should make things easier and 
cleaner.  This would allow a user (even anonymous) to set options that would 
only be valid for their current session and allow the plugin to maintain 
state even when control is passed elsewhere.

And I will agree that we need to keep sessions small -- we also should have 
some guidelines about variable naming in sessions.  We don't want multiple 
plugins stuffing things in the same variable like 'user'.

A question about your session handler.  If I have a session open and follow 
a link with shift-click do both windows share the have the same session?  (I 
ran into this issue with an webmail program.)

TomW