Comments on: Zend Amf now with php session support

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Zend AMF | PHP - Flashforum — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:55:31 +0000

[...] Wade Arnold Zend Amf now with php session support [...]

By: sohail

sohail — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:39:02 +0000

Hi Wade,

I read all your article it is really great. I run the test application and it is working. But i have a different scenario let me explain. User login in my simple php application. After login a swf file showing and perform some operation on button click using zend_amf and set a new session and i cannot access my old session parameters.. Please help me how i can access the session parameters when i was login.
Thanks in advance.

Sohail

By: sohail

sohail — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:37:50 +0000

Hi Wade,

Sohail

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:37:31 +0000

thx for tutorial, I’m learning it but the last piece of code has disappeared…could u update.

By: saltamontez

saltamontez — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:42:26 +0000

Your example doesn´t work Firefox 3.5.7 and IE 8.8.76 so it seems. The flex example code is not displayed either. I´m really trying to make ends meet here but no luck. I put my AMF endpoint under an indexAction in my AmfController. I tweaked the code generated by Flashbuilder (gateway.php) so I can use the data-centric-development features. I got everything running so far but the session keeps getting lost.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:11:17 +0000

Hi Wade,
Your example doesn’t work. I got my script to work but I get that line in my gateway file (where echo $server->handle(); is):
AppendToGatewayUrl+?PHPSESSID=3fd770e188676605437223ab67c65370

Is that normal?

Thanks for your work!

By: nielsenx

nielsenx — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:28:22 +0000

I tried creating the same example you have using flash instead of flex and I’m getting consistent results with what I see in your example, the number is never updated because a new session ID is given everytime the amf call is made, is there something I’m missing?

By: nielsenx

nielsenx — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:45:10 +0000

The session example thing isn’t working for me, it never gets incremented, I’m using safari on mac but I don’t think that should be a reason. Also I have a flash site using ZF to authenticate users and store a session and I can’t seem to keep that session data between flash amf calls, it doesn’t know that Zend_Auth is already set.

By: roman

roman — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:43:19 +0000

Hi, I created small test application using Zend_Auth and Zend_ACL but had some troubles with it. Finnaly looked over Zend_Amf_Server code. (ZF is v1.7.8). I’m wondering why Zend_Amf_Server code uses php session handling function directly instead of Zend_Session and Zend_Session_Namespace (what about session validators and all “cool” staff of Zend_Session?!)

look at handle method starting at line 380. is it secure?!

if ($this->isSession()) {
// Check if a session is being sent from the amf call
if (isset($_COOKIE[$this->_sessionName])) {
session_id($_COOKIE[$this->_sessionName]);
}
}

look at line 102
protected $_sessionName = ‘PHPSESSID’;

and there is no no setter (or configuration option) to change this value. the only solution is to extend Zemd_Amf_Server with override. why?!

now look at line 96
protected $_sesionNamespace = ‘zend_amf’;

and than look at setSession method. i’m bit confused why Zend_Session_Namespace is instantiated here?! to call session_start() indirectly trought Zend_Session::start()?! but, as you can see, Zend_Session and Zend_Session_Namespace isn’t used by the rest of server code. so, we have to stay with plain php session handling function or use Zend_Session_*. don’t mix it!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:47:09 +0000

I wanted to add a quick update to what the cause of my problem was:
Running on Ubuntu 8.10, I had different versions of ZF installed in multiple locations, some belonged to the old installation of ZendStudio 6.1.0, some to the new installation of ZS 6.1.1 and some standalone versions I had for testing.

For some reason PHP was looking at multiple directories, and not choosing the local installation of ZF under /library/Zend. After deleting all the additional ZF instances everything started to work as expected.

-Mike