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Sessions Not Seeming to Work

So I've got the default Phalcon setup, with my services.php file looking like this:

use Phalcon\Session\Adapter\Files as SessionAdapter;

//  ... Other Services Code here

$di->setShared('session', function () {
    $session = new SessionAdapter();
    $session->start();

    return $session;
});

And my controller looks like this:

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Controller;

class AdminController extends Controller
{

    public function indexAction()
    {
      if ($this->request->isPost() && $this->request->getPost("password") === "thePassword")
      {
        $this->session->set("adminLogin", true);
      }

      if($this->session->has("adminLogin") && $this->session->get("adminLogin"))
      {
        $this->view->pick("admin/admin");
      }
      else
      {
        $this->view->pick("admin/login");
      }
    }
}

For a very basic, password-protected admin screen. However, it always kicks me back to the login page, even if the password is correct.

I've tried just putting in this:

      $this->session->set("adminLogin", true);
      var_dump( $this->session );

And I get this as output:

object(Phalcon\Session\Adapter\Files)#33 (3) { ["_uniqueId":protected]=> NULL ["_started":protected]=> bool(false) ["_options":protected]=> NULL }

I tested just setting a variable inside the password checking block and then checking for that variable on the admin view block, and that works, so the problem is with my sessions.



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Your code looks pretty straightforward. Rather than calling var_dump() on $this->session, try calling it on $_SESSION, to see what that looks like. Maybe try adjusting your code to talk to $_SESSION directly - at least on a temporary basis to see if you can find the code that's causing the error.



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edited Aug '15

It worked using $_SESSION, so I kept messing around and found out that the original code wasn't even creating a session cookie for the client, and that to get the Phalcon Sessions to work, I needed to add session_start(); to my code. Wasn't expecting it to be necessary for Phalcon sessions, but I suppose since they pretty much just use PHP's normal sessions that makes sense.

So in the end it works when my controller looks like this:

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Controller;

class AdminController extends Controller
{

    public function indexAction()
    {
      session_start(); //Only part changed from the original code.
      if ($this->request->isPost() && $this->request->getPost("password") === "thePassword")
      {
        $this->session->set("adminLogin", true);
      }

      if($this->session->has("adminLogin") && $this->session->get("adminLogin"))
      {
        $this->view->pick("admin/admin");
      }
      else
      {
        $this->view->pick("admin/login");
      }
    }
}