Introducing AkrabatSession zf2

 

One of the requirements for a new app that I'm writing is that it has a specific session name. In Zend Framework 2, this is done by creating a SessionManager with the correct configuration and then setting the default manager on the Session Container:

 

use Zend\Session\Config\SessionConfig;
use Zend\Session\SessionManager;
use Zend\Session\Container;
 
$sessionConfig = new SessionConfig();
$sessionConfig->setOptions(array('name'=>'MY_SESSION_NAME');
$sessionManager = new SessionManager($config);
Container::setDefaultManager($sessionManager);

 

Obviously, I need to be able to configure the name (and potentially other session configuration options) from myconfig/autoload/global.php file and this is a generically useful requirement, so I created the AkrabatSession module.

 

This is a really simple module that simply allows you to configure the SessionManager with minimal effort:

 

1. Install AkrabatSession.
2. Enable it as the first module in application.config.php
3. Add the following to your configuration array in global.php:

       'session' => array(
           'name' => 'MY_SESSION_NAME_HERE',
       ),