Comments on: Zend Amf now with php session support

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

By: wadearnold

wadearnold — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:44:54 +0000

@Mike @Conor are you using the code from the trunk? I just migrated the code into the next 1.7 release. Mike i fired you an email.

By: wadearnold

wadearnold — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:43:36 +0000

@conor
your bootstrap file seems to say:
setSession();
and not
$server->setSession();

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:27:53 +0000

Again, despite the fact that I have updated the ZEND_AMF Server class with the code from the SVN repositor as mentioned in the article, I still get the same annoying “Fatal error: Call to undefined method Zend_Amf_Server::isSession() in /var/web/htdocs/core/application/default/controllers/ServicesController.php on line 84″ error.

This has been holding my development hostage for over a week now, and is getting serious frustrating. Can anyone throw me a bone on this one?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:56:48 +0000

I’m having the same issue as conor. How can I resolve this?